{"id":493217,"date":"2022-05-23T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493217"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:57:54","slug":"despite-reduction-fuel-prices-remain-high-in-maha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-reduction-fuel-prices-remain-high-in-maha\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite reduction, fuel prices remain high in Maha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A day after the Centre reduced the excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b98 and \u20b96, respectively, the price of petrol dropped by \u20b99.16 and that of diesel by \u20b97.49 in Mumbai. The petrol was available at \u20b9111.35 a litre while the diesel was priced at \u20b997.28 per litre. The fuel rates in Maharashtra are still high compared to neighbouring states, especially the BJP-ruled states.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the excise duty was slashed on petrol and diesel, Mumbai continued to have the costliest petrol among metro cities at \u20b9111.35 a litre followed by Hyderabad at \u20b9109.66 a litre and \u20b9106.03 a litre in Kolkata. Diesel was costliest in Hyderabad with \u20b997.82 a litre followed by Mumbai with \u20b997.28 and Chennai with \u20b994.24 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>Further, despite the reduction in petrol and diesel prices dealers have stated that the fuel prices are costlier than neighbouring states. Petrol and diesel cost \u20b996.42 and \u20b992.17 in Ahmedabad, \u20b9108.65 and \u20b993.90 in Bhopal, \u20b9109.66 and \u20b997.82 in Hyderabad, \u20b997.68 and \u20b990.23 in Panjim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A day after the Centre reduced the excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b98 and \u20b96, respectively, the price of petrol dropped by \u20b99.16 and that of diesel by \u20b97.49 in Mumbai. The petrol was available at \u20b9111.35 a litre while the diesel was priced at \u20b997.28 per litre. The fuel rates in Maharashtra are still high compared to neighbouring states, especially the BJP-ruled states. Even as the excise duty was slashed on petrol and diesel, Mumbai continued to have the costliest petrol among metro cities at \u20b9111.35 a litre followed by Hyderabad at \u20b9109.66 a litre and [&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-493217","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\/493217","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=493217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}