The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Kerala government is likely to reduce the cess on petroleum products to \u20b91 from \u20b92, and an announcement in this regard will be made in the assembly on Wednesday during budget discussions, said people close to the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In the past week, besides opposition parties, LDF alliance partners also expressed reservations over the cess, and truckers and private bus owners associations also sought a tariff hike given the proposed \u20b92 cesses. On Friday, finance minister T N Balagopal proposed a \u20b92 cess on petrol and diesel to collect \u20b9750 crore additional revenue in the state budget to fund welfare pension and other social security activities in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the budget, it is only proposals. We will discuss it in detail and will take an appropriate decision. Our policy is not to impose an additional burden on people,\u201d said CPI(M) state secretary M V Govindan in Kochi on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Kerala government is likely to reduce the cess on petroleum products to \u20b91 from \u20b92, and an announcement in this regard will be made in the assembly on Wednesday during budget discussions, said people close to the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) on Sunday. In the past week, besides opposition parties, LDF alliance partners also expressed reservations over the cess, and truckers and private bus owners associations also sought a tariff hike given the proposed \u20b92 cesses. On Friday, finance minister T N Balagopal proposed a \u20b92 cess on petrol and diesel to collect […]<\/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-553273","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\/553273","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=553273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}