NEW DELHI: India\u2019s October diesel consumption surpassed the pre-Covid level for the first time in a year as festive demand boosted industrial activity and rapid vaccination against Covid prompted more people to travel.
\nAccording to sales data, diesel consumption was 1.7% more than October 2019 but 5% lower than a year ago.
\nOn a monthly basis, October diesel sales recorded a 20% jump over September, spurred by increased movement of people, materials and finished products.
\nPetrol sales too maintained their growth momentum in October, with consumption rising 8% from the same month of 2019 and almost 4% higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: India\u2019s October diesel consumption surpassed the pre-Covid level for the first time in a year as festive demand boosted industrial activity and rapid vaccination against Covid prompted more people to travel. According to sales data, diesel consumption was 1.7% more than October 2019 but 5% lower than a year ago. On a monthly basis, October diesel sales recorded a 20% jump over September, spurred by increased movement of people, materials and finished products. Petrol sales too maintained their growth momentum in October, with consumption rising 8% from the same month of 2019 and almost 4% higher than a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-447068","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\/447068","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}