{"id":402182,"date":"2021-02-26T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402182"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:46:27","slug":"centre-states-need-to-talk-to-ease-load-on-consumer-fm-on-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-states-need-to-talk-to-ease-load-on-consumer-fm-on-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre, states need to talk to ease load on consumer: FM on fuel price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the fuel price hike issue, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday admitted that both the Centre and state needed to talk in a way to reduce burden on petrol and diesel consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If eventually, we want the consumer not to be bearing so much of the burden, it is the Centre and states that have to talk&#8230; Let&#8217;s see what we can do,&#8221; said Sitharaman while interacting with students and faculty at an event organised by the JSW School of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I strongly believe it is no longer competitive (between Centre and state). If the end consumer should pay less and I agree the burden should be less on them, it is no longer a competition between Centre and states,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the fuel price hike issue, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday admitted that both the Centre and state needed to talk in a way to reduce burden on petrol and diesel consumers. &#8220;If eventually, we want the consumer not to be bearing so much of the burden, it is the Centre and states that have to talk&#8230; Let&#8217;s see what we can do,&#8221; said Sitharaman while interacting with students and faculty at an event organised by the JSW School of Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. &#8220;I strongly believe it is no longer competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402182","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}