{"id":411031,"date":"2021-04-17T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411031"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:13:47","slug":"transporters-body-terms-16-paise-cut-in-petrol-diesel-rates-ostentatious-seeks-more-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transporters-body-terms-16-paise-cut-in-petrol-diesel-rates-ostentatious-seeks-more-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Transporters&#8217; body terms 16 paise cut in petrol, diesel rates &#8216;ostentatious&#8217;, seeks more reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transporters&#8217; body AIMTC on Friday termed the recent 14-16 paise per litre cut in petrol and diesel prices across major cities as &#8220;ostentatious&#8221;, and said there is still a room to reduction their prices by up to Rs 40 per litre. In a statement, the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), which claims representing over 95 lakh truckers and entities, said it is an open fact that this small cut in the petrol and diesel prices has a bearing on the election in four states &#8211; West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam.<\/p>\n<p>All India Motor Transport Congress Chairman (Core Committee) Bal Milkit Singh said, &#8220;We welcome the miniscule decrease in prices of petrol and diesel prices by about 14-16 paise per litre across major cities, which is on account of a correction in the price of Brent crude to about USD 62 per barrel in early April 2021 from a peak of USD 70 a barrel in early-March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transporters&#8217; body AIMTC on Friday termed the recent 14-16 paise per litre cut in petrol and diesel prices across major cities as &#8220;ostentatious&#8221;, and said there is still a room to reduction their prices by up to Rs 40 per litre. In a statement, the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), which claims representing over 95 lakh truckers and entities, said it is an open fact that this small cut in the petrol and diesel prices has a bearing on the election in four states &#8211; West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam. All India Motor Transport Congress Chairman (Core [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411031","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\/411031","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=411031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}