{"id":381683,"date":"2020-11-02T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381683"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:46:37","slug":"diesel-sales-top-pre-covid-level-by-6-in-october-on-festive-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diesel-sales-top-pre-covid-level-by-6-in-october-on-festive-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel sales top pre-Covid level by 6% in October on festive demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s diesel consumption in October shot past the pre-pandemic level for the first time since the lockdown, while petrol and power demand continued to grow at a healthy trot, clearly indicating that economic recovery is gathering steam on the back of festival season demand.<br \/>\nLatest market data shows state-run fuel retailers, who dominate 90% of the market, selling six per cent more diesel in October than they did a year ago and petrol consumption rising four per cent year-on-year.<br \/>\nSimultaneously, government data for October shows power consumption rising more than 13 per cent to 110.94 BUs (billion units), driven mainly by buoyancy in industrial and commercial activities, from 97.84 BUs a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s diesel consumption in October shot past the pre-pandemic level for the first time since the lockdown, while petrol and power demand continued to grow at a healthy trot, clearly indicating that economic recovery is gathering steam on the back of festival season demand. Latest market data shows state-run fuel retailers, who dominate 90% of the market, selling six per cent more diesel in October than they did a year ago and petrol consumption rising four per cent year-on-year. Simultaneously, government data for October shows power consumption rising more than 13 per cent to 110.94 BUs (billion units), [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381683","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=381683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}