NEW DELHI: Petrol sales in Delhi have slumped by a quarter as vehicle owners in the country\u2019s largest car market and hordes of daily commuters driving or riding into the capital for work from townships around the capital began flocking to outlets in UP and Haryana since these states slashed VAT after the Centre cut excise duty on November 3.
\nMore than a quarter of Delhi\u2019s 403 petrol pumps located on or near the border in particular have seen a dramatic drop in sales as consumers were drawn to UP and Haryana where petrol became cheaper by more than Rs 8 a litre as the Arvind Kejriwal government is yet to reduce VAT.
\n\u201cAbout 115 petrol pumps in Delhi are near the border with UP and Haryana. These pumps have seen sales slide 50-60%. The pumps in areas such as trans-Yamuna are suffering more as UP is a bigger draw due to the wider gap with Delhi\u2019s price and larger number of people driving into the city from townships near the capital,\u201d All India Petroleum Dealers Association president Ajay Bansal told TOI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Petrol sales in Delhi have slumped by a quarter as vehicle owners in the country\u2019s largest car market and hordes of daily commuters driving or riding into the capital for work from townships around the capital began flocking to outlets in UP and Haryana since these states slashed VAT after the Centre cut excise duty on November 3. More than a quarter of Delhi\u2019s 403 petrol pumps located on or near the border in particular have seen a dramatic drop in sales as consumers were drawn to UP and Haryana where petrol became cheaper by more than Rs […]<\/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-449634","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\/449634","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=449634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}