{"id":505497,"date":"2022-07-15T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505497"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T05:43:34","slug":"maharashtra-govt-cuts-vat-on-petrol-by-rs-5-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-govt-cuts-vat-on-petrol-by-rs-5-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra govt cuts VAT on petrol by Rs 5, diesel by Rs 3 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government will reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre, respectively, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, to be implemented from Thursday midnight, would put a burden of Rs 6,000 crore on the state exchequer but will benefit common people, he told reporters after a cabinet meeting here.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the decision was part of the Shiv Sena-BJP government&#8217;s commitment to people&#8217;s welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The government will also ensure that the revenue loss of Rs 6,000 crore does not affect development works, Shinde said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government will reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre, respectively, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced on Thursday. The decision, to be implemented from Thursday midnight, would put a burden of Rs 6,000 crore on the state exchequer but will benefit common people, he told reporters after a cabinet meeting here. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the decision was part of the Shiv Sena-BJP government&#8217;s commitment to people&#8217;s welfare. The government will also ensure that the revenue loss of Rs 6,000 crore does not affect development works, [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505497","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=505497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}