{"id":447385,"date":"2021-11-05T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447385"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:44:20","slug":"road-freight-rates-to-cool-off-10-12-following-diesel-price-cut-iftrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-freight-rates-to-cool-off-10-12-following-diesel-price-cut-iftrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Road freight rates to cool off 10-12% following diesel price cut: IFTRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freight rates on key trunk routes are expected to come down by 10-12 per cent in the next few days following the cut in diesel prices, according to the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT).<\/p>\n<p>The prices of fruit, vegetables, and other consumables are expected to reduce, offering a relief to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreight rates are expected to come down 10-12 per cent in the next few days,\u201d said S P Singh, senior fellow at the IFTRT, a New Delhi-based think-tank. He attributed it to the fall in diesel prices and an expected drop in value-added tax (VAT) rates by state governments.<\/p>\n<p>In Delhi for instance, diesel price is down by Rs 12 including the reduction in VAT. In some states the reduction is Rs 14, said Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freight rates on key trunk routes are expected to come down by 10-12 per cent in the next few days following the cut in diesel prices, according to the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT). The prices of fruit, vegetables, and other consumables are expected to reduce, offering a relief to consumers. \u201cFreight rates are expected to come down 10-12 per cent in the next few days,\u201d said S P Singh, senior fellow at the IFTRT, a New Delhi-based think-tank. He attributed it to the fall in diesel prices and an expected drop in value-added tax (VAT) rates [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447385","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=447385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}