{"id":362814,"date":"2020-07-15T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362814"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T05:40:49","slug":"modis-fuel-price-hikes-putting-the-brakes-on-indias-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modis-fuel-price-hikes-putting-the-brakes-on-indias-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s fuel price hikes putting the brakes on India\u2019s economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilip Lamba, who owns a transport company in Jodhpur in western India, has had more than three-quarters of his fleet of 50 trucks idling for months. Dharampal Nambardar, a farmer who grows wheat and mustard seed in Haryana state, is worried he might not make any profit this year. <\/p>\n<p>The main source of their anxiety is not Covid-19, however, but rather a surge in fuel prices. The central government has hiked import and excise taxes twice this year even as it imposed the world\u2019s biggest coronavirus lockdown. Retail prices for diesel &#8212; the lifeblood of India\u2019s economy &#8212; in the capital New Delhi have jumped 30% since the end of April, while gasoline has risen 16%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilip Lamba, who owns a transport company in Jodhpur in western India, has had more than three-quarters of his fleet of 50 trucks idling for months. Dharampal Nambardar, a farmer who grows wheat and mustard seed in Haryana state, is worried he might not make any profit this year. The main source of their anxiety is not Covid-19, however, but rather a surge in fuel prices. The central government has hiked import and excise taxes twice this year even as it imposed the world\u2019s biggest coronavirus lockdown. Retail prices for diesel &#8212; the lifeblood of India\u2019s economy &#8212; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}