{"id":365848,"date":"2020-07-31T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365848"},"modified":"2020-07-31T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T07:31:21","slug":"diesel-prices-dip-in-capital-as-govt-rolls-back-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-prices-dip-in-capital-as-govt-rolls-back-tax-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel prices dip in capital as govt rolls back tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of diesel will come down by Rs 8.36 per litre in the capital with the Delhi government rolling back its decision \u2014 taken in May \u2014 to hike tax on the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the rate of VAT on diesel was being brought back to 16.75 per cent from 30 per cent. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe price of diesel was Rs 82 per litre on Wednesday. After the reduction of VAT, the new price will be Rs 73.64 per litre,\u201d Kejriwal said, describing the move as a significant step to bring the economy back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of diesel will come down by Rs 8.36 per litre in the capital with the Delhi government rolling back its decision \u2014 taken in May \u2014 to hike tax on the fuel. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the rate of VAT on diesel was being brought back to 16.75 per cent from 30 per cent. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting Thursday morning. \u201cThe price of diesel was Rs 82 per litre on Wednesday. After the reduction of VAT, the new price will be Rs 73.64 per litre,\u201d Kejriwal said, describing the move as a [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365848","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=365848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}