{"id":2541,"date":"2020-03-14T06:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2020-03-14T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T06:10:37","slug":"govt-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-and-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/14\/govt-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-and-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt hikes excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excise duty on petrol and diesel was on Saturday hiked by Rs 3 per \nlitre as the government looked to mop up gains arising from fall in \ninternational oil prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre \nincase of petrol and to Rs 4 incase of diesel, an official notification \nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, road cess on petrol was raised by Rs 1 per litre each on petrol and diesel to Rs 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The increase in excise duty would in normal course result in a hike \nin petrol and diesel prices but most of it would be adjusted against the\n fall in rates that would have necessitated because of slump in \ninternational oil prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excise duty on petrol and diesel was on Saturday hiked by Rs 3 per litre as the government looked to mop up gains arising from fall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}