{"id":457698,"date":"2021-12-21T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457698"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:40:28","slug":"petrol-pumps-to-stay-shut-on-tuesday-to-demand-vat-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-pumps-to-stay-shut-on-tuesday-to-demand-vat-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol pumps to stay shut on Tuesday to demand VAT cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,400 petrol pumps of Jharkhand will remain closed on Tuesday as petroleum dealers will stage a day-long strike to demand that the state government reduce VAT on diesel and stop the sale of adulterated fuel in the name of biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>Dhanbad-based Ashok Singh, the state president of Jharkhand Petroleum Dealers&#8217; Association, said, &#8220;The present rate of VAT of 22%  on diesel is too high. We have demanded that the state government bring it down to 16%.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said a delegation of members of the association met state finance minister Rameshwar Oraon in Ranchi to air their grieveances and asked him to constitute a committee to look into their demands. But since the government had not responded, the association had been compelld to go ahead with the strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,400 petrol pumps of Jharkhand will remain closed on Tuesday as petroleum dealers will stage a day-long strike to demand that the state government reduce VAT on diesel and stop the sale of adulterated fuel in the name of biodiesel. Dhanbad-based Ashok Singh, the state president of Jharkhand Petroleum Dealers&#8217; Association, said, &#8220;The present rate of VAT of 22% on diesel is too high. We have demanded that the state government bring it down to 16%.&#8221; He said a delegation of members of the association met state finance minister Rameshwar Oraon in Ranchi to air their grieveances and asked [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457698","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=457698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}