{"id":426212,"date":"2021-07-15T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426212"},"modified":"2021-07-15T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T07:20:04","slug":"high-fuel-prices-forcing-people-to-cut-expenditure-on-health-utilities-sbi-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/high-fuel-prices-forcing-people-to-cut-expenditure-on-health-utilities-sbi-report\/","title":{"rendered":"High fuel prices forcing people to cut expenditure on health, utilities: SBI report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fuel prices hitting record highs have been a cause for concern since the past few months, so much so that it is now eating into essential consumption expenditure of the common man, says a report by State Bank of India&#8217;s (SBI) economic research team. <\/p>\n<p>The report notes that surge in prices of petrol and diesel is making people spend less on other non-discretionary items like grocery, health and utilities, thereby crowding out their demand. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol has crossed the Rs-100-a-litre mark in more than one and a half dozen states and union territories (UTs), while diesel is being sold at over Rs 100 a litre in Rajasthan and Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fuel prices hitting record highs have been a cause for concern since the past few months, so much so that it is now eating into essential consumption expenditure of the common man, says a report by State Bank of India&#8217;s (SBI) economic research team. The report notes that surge in prices of petrol and diesel is making people spend less on other non-discretionary items like grocery, health and utilities, thereby crowding out their demand. Petrol has crossed the Rs-100-a-litre mark in more than one and a half dozen states and union territories (UTs), while diesel is being sold [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426212","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\/426212","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=426212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}