{"id":447749,"date":"2021-11-06T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447749"},"modified":"2021-11-06T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:10:57","slug":"petrol-price-further-cut-by-rs-8-diesel-by-rs-9-in-bjp-ruled-states-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-price-further-cut-by-rs-8-diesel-by-rs-9-in-bjp-ruled-states-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price further cut by Rs 8, diesel by Rs 9 in BJP-ruled states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol price has been further reduced by as much as Rs 8.7 per litre and diesel by Rs 9.52 in BJP ruled states and UTs &#8211; from Ladakh to Puducherry &#8211; as they matched the central government&#8217;s announcement of a cut in excise duty with slashing of local sales tax (VAT) rates. <\/p>\n<p>Buckling under pressure, the Union government had on Wednesday cut excise duty on petrol by Rs 5 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 10 a litre to give reprieve to consumers battered by record-high retail fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>This announcement was matched by 22 states and Union Territories cutting VAT rates in different proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol price has been further reduced by as much as Rs 8.7 per litre and diesel by Rs 9.52 in BJP ruled states and UTs &#8211; from Ladakh to Puducherry &#8211; as they matched the central government&#8217;s announcement of a cut in excise duty with slashing of local sales tax (VAT) rates. Buckling under pressure, the Union government had on Wednesday cut excise duty on petrol by Rs 5 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 10 a litre to give reprieve to consumers battered by record-high retail fuel prices. This announcement was matched by 22 states and Union [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447749","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=447749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}