{"id":365851,"date":"2020-07-31T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T07:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365851"},"modified":"2020-07-31T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T07:32:17","slug":"delhi-govt-cuts-vat-rates-diesel-to-be-cheaper-by-over-%e2%82%b98-litre-in-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-govt-cuts-vat-rates-diesel-to-be-cheaper-by-over-%e2%82%b98-litre-in-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi govt cuts VAT rates, diesel to be cheaper by over \u20b98\/litre in capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on diesel from 30% to 16.75%, effectively slashing the fuel price by \u20b98.36 per litre in the national capital. Currently, the price of diesel is \u20b981.94 per litre in Delhi, much higher when compared to petrol, which is \u20b980.43 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The new diesel rate will come into effect only after the Delhi government\u2019s issues a gazette notification, which was yet to come till the time of going to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Together, we have to revive the economy after the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. Currently, diesel is quite expensive in Delhi. It costs around \u20b982 per litre. The Delhi cabinet on Thursday has decided to reduce the VAT on diesel from 30% to 16.75%. This will reduce the diesel rate by \u20b98.36 per litre. The move is likely to help revive Delhi\u2019s economy,\u201d the CM said during a video press briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on diesel from 30% to 16.75%, effectively slashing the fuel price by \u20b98.36 per litre in the national capital. Currently, the price of diesel is \u20b981.94 per litre in Delhi, much higher when compared to petrol, which is \u20b980.43 per litre. The new diesel rate will come into effect only after the Delhi government\u2019s issues a gazette notification, which was yet to come till the time of going to the press. Together, we have to revive the economy after the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. Currently, diesel is quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365851","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}