{"id":321040,"date":"2020-03-14T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321040"},"modified":"2020-03-14T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T09:17:03","slug":"government-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-rs-3-per-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Government hikes excise duty on petrol, diesel by Rs 3 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/diesel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/diesel.jpg 467w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/diesel-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/diesel-386x420.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/>The government on Saturday increased excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre as it looked to mop up gains arising from fall in international oil prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the official notification, the special\u00a0excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in case of petrol and to Rs 4 in case of diesel.\u00a0Moreover, the road cess on petrol was also raised by Rs 1 per litre each on petrol and diesel to Rs 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With this, the excise duty on petrol has risen to Rs 22.98 per litre while on diesel to Rs 18.83 per litre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A\u00a0litre of petrol in Delhi cost Rs 69.87 per litre and diesel comes at Rs 62.58 per litre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Saturday increased excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre as it looked to mop up gains arising from fall in international oil prices. As per the official notification, the special\u00a0excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in case of petrol and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321041,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321040\/revisions\/321041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}