{"id":493247,"date":"2022-05-23T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493247"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:29:33","slug":"govt-cuts-fuel-excise-petrol-and-diesel-cheaper-by-rs-9-59-and-rs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-cuts-fuel-excise-petrol-and-diesel-cheaper-by-rs-9-59-and-rs-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cuts fuel excise: Petrol and diesel cheaper by Rs 9.59 and Rs 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure, the government on Saturday cut excise duty on petrol by a record Rs 8 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 6 per litre to give relief to consumers battering under high fuel prices that has also pushed inflation to a multi-year high.<\/p>\n<p>The excise duty cut will translate into a reduction of Rs 9.5 a litre on petrol and Rs 7 a litre in diesel after taking into account its impact on other levies.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, &#8220;It is always people first for us! Today\u2019s decisions, especially the one relating to a significant drop in petrol and diesel prices will positively impact various sectors, provide relief to our citizens and further \u2018Ease of Living.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure, the government on Saturday cut excise duty on petrol by a record Rs 8 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 6 per litre to give relief to consumers battering under high fuel prices that has also pushed inflation to a multi-year high. The excise duty cut will translate into a reduction of Rs 9.5 a litre on petrol and Rs 7 a litre in diesel after taking into account its impact on other levies. Reacting to the decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, &#8220;It is always people first for us! Today\u2019s decisions, especially the one relating [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493247","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\/493247","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=493247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}