{"id":402456,"date":"2021-03-01T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402456"},"modified":"2021-03-01T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:44:37","slug":"indias-biggest-oil-retailers-are-now-focusing-on-rural-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-biggest-oil-retailers-are-now-focusing-on-rural-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s biggest oil retailers are now focusing on rural revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one part of India\u2019s economy that\u2019s been relatively unscathed by the devastating impact of Covid-19 it\u2019s the vast rural hinterlands. And the country\u2019s biggest fuel retailers are sitting up and taking notice.<\/p>\n<p>Stay-at-home orders first imposed from March last year had a disproportionate impact on India\u2019s teeming cities, but in small towns and villages people mostly went about their business with fewer restrictions. A bumper agricultural crop and a splurge in government spending to pull the economy out of a slump is also expected to put more money into the hands of rural farmers and laborers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one part of India\u2019s economy that\u2019s been relatively unscathed by the devastating impact of Covid-19 it\u2019s the vast rural hinterlands. And the country\u2019s biggest fuel retailers are sitting up and taking notice. Stay-at-home orders first imposed from March last year had a disproportionate impact on India\u2019s teeming cities, but in small towns and villages people mostly went about their business with fewer restrictions. A bumper agricultural crop and a splurge in government spending to pull the economy out of a slump is also expected to put more money into the hands of rural farmers and laborers.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402456","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=402456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}