{"id":505677,"date":"2022-07-15T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505677"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:29:22","slug":"maharashtra-cuts-price-of-petrol-diesel-by-rs-5-and-rs-3-per-litre-respectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-cuts-price-of-petrol-diesel-by-rs-5-and-rs-3-per-litre-respectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra cuts price of petrol, diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre respectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly formed Eknath Shinde-led government on Thursday decided to reduce the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a state Cabinet meeting led by CM Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Soon after taking charge, Fadnavis had announced that VAT on fuel will be reduced, similar to other BJP-ruled states. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, Shinde said, \u201cThe central government had reduced VAT on November 4 and May 22 and PM Narendra Modi had also urged states to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly formed Eknath Shinde-led government on Thursday decided to reduce the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre respectively. The decision was taken during a state Cabinet meeting led by CM Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Soon after taking charge, Fadnavis had announced that VAT on fuel will be reduced, similar to other BJP-ruled states. Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, Shinde said, \u201cThe central government had reduced VAT on November 4 and May 22 and PM Narendra Modi had also urged states to do so.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505677","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=505677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}