NEW DELHI: The price of regular petrol consumed by the masses shot up to Rs 100.13 a litre in Rajasthan\u2019s Sri Ganganagar on Wednesday, the first time an automotive fuel has crossed the Rs 100-mark anywhere in the country. In other states, the prices mostly ruled above Rs 90 a litre mark as high central and state taxes bumped up the impact of rising crude prices.
\nDiesel prices too made a record at Rs 92.1 a litre in Sri Ganganagar, while generally raging well above Rs 80 per litre in other states. Unmoved by these record prices, the Centre has ruled out any tax cut and is blaming oil exporters for jacking up crude prices.
\nThis is unlike in October 2018, when, after petrol price rose to Rs 84 a litre and diesel Rs 75.45 in Delhi, the Centre had reduced excise duty by Rs 2 per litre on October 4 and by Rs 1.5 the next day.
\nSome 18 states also reduced VAT at Centre\u2019s behest. Consumers in Rajasthan pay more than others because the state has the highest tax on petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The price of regular petrol consumed by the masses shot up to Rs 100.13 a litre in Rajasthan\u2019s Sri Ganganagar on Wednesday, the first time an automotive fuel has crossed the Rs 100-mark anywhere in the country. In other states, the prices mostly ruled above Rs 90 a litre mark as high central and state taxes bumped up the impact of rising crude prices. Diesel prices too made a record at Rs 92.1 a litre in Sri Ganganagar, while generally raging well above Rs 80 per litre in other states. Unmoved by these record prices, the Centre has […]<\/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-400966","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\/400966","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=400966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}