{"id":573714,"date":"2023-05-02T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=573714"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:25:16","slug":"april-fuel-sales-power-demand-move-in-slow-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/april-fuel-sales-power-demand-move-in-slow-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"April fuel sales, power demand move in slow lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel and power demand continued in the slow lane for the second month in a row in April in spite of an uptick in farm and economic activities, provisional government data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol demand rose 2.5% in April from a year ago, the slowest since December 2022 when pace of growth had sputtered to 8% after rebounding in double digits for months. The poor growth comes amid robust automobile sales and indicates demand further losing steam from 5.1% year-on-year growth in March.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel consumption, a key indicator of economic activities, fared better with a 6.7% increase over April 2022, trebling the pace of growth from 2.1% in March, the first time in many months it had faltered to a single digit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel and power demand continued in the slow lane for the second month in a row in April in spite of an uptick in farm and economic activities, provisional government data showed. Petrol demand rose 2.5% in April from a year ago, the slowest since December 2022 when pace of growth had sputtered to 8% after rebounding in double digits for months. The poor growth comes amid robust automobile sales and indicates demand further losing steam from 5.1% year-on-year growth in March. Diesel consumption, a key indicator of economic activities, fared better with a 6.7% increase over [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573714","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=573714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}