{"id":405372,"date":"2021-03-17T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405372"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T06:48:06","slug":"indias-petrol-diesel-sales-rise-as-economic-activity-picks-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-petrol-diesel-sales-rise-as-economic-activity-picks-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s petrol, diesel sales rise as economic activity picks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian state fuel retailers&#8217; diesel sales rose 7.4 per cent to 2.84 million tonnes in the first fortnight of March from a year earlier, preliminary industry data showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales rose 5.3 per cent to 1.05 million tonnes in the same period from a year earlier, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first annual rise in gasoil sales in the country since October. Fuel sales in India took a hit in March last year as the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s economy returned to growth in the three months to December and the recovery is expected to gather pace as consumers and investors shake off the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian state fuel retailers&#8217; diesel sales rose 7.4 per cent to 2.84 million tonnes in the first fortnight of March from a year earlier, preliminary industry data showed on Tuesday. Petrol sales rose 5.3 per cent to 1.05 million tonnes in the same period from a year earlier, the data showed. This is the first annual rise in gasoil sales in the country since October. Fuel sales in India took a hit in March last year as the government imposed a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. India&#8217;s economy returned to growth in the three months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-405372","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\/405372","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}