{"id":493189,"date":"2022-05-23T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493189"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:29:42","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-slashed-lpg-subsidies-6-big-announcements-by-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-slashed-lpg-subsidies-6-big-announcements-by-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices slashed, LPG subsidies: 6 big announcements by FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel prices were cut Saturday as union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman made several big-ticket announcements to help relieve the common man of the burden of inflation and rising prices. Sitharaman said prime minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s office had &#8216;specifically asked all arms of the government to work with sensitivity and give relief to the common man&#8217;. Major concessions included excise duty reductions for petrol, diesel, and LPG cylinder subsidies. <\/p>\n<p>Here are 6 big announcements by Nirmala Sitharmaman:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Prices of petrol and diesel would be slashed by \u20b99.5 per litre and \u20b97 per litre after the centre reduces excise duties by \u20b98 and \u20b96, respectively. This will affect revenue by about \u20b91 lakh crore per year, the finance minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol and diesel prices were cut Saturday as union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman made several big-ticket announcements to help relieve the common man of the burden of inflation and rising prices. Sitharaman said prime minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s office had &#8216;specifically asked all arms of the government to work with sensitivity and give relief to the common man&#8217;. Major concessions included excise duty reductions for petrol, diesel, and LPG cylinder subsidies. Here are 6 big announcements by Nirmala Sitharmaman: &gt; Prices of petrol and diesel would be slashed by \u20b99.5 per litre and \u20b97 per litre after the centre reduces excise [&hellip;]<\/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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493189","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=493189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}