{"id":3849,"date":"2017-10-04T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2017-10-04T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T19:41:19","slug":"govt-cuts-excise-duty-on-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/govt-cuts-excise-duty-on-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cuts excise duty on fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>New Delhi, Oct 3:<\/strong> Bowing to public pressure, the government today cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to moderate the relentless rise in fuel prices witnessed for the last three months.<br \/>\n&#8220;Govt of India has reduced Basic Excise Duty rate on petrol and diesel [both branded and unbranded] by Rs 2 per litre w.e.f. 4th October,2017,&#8221; the finance ministry said in a tweet.<br \/>\nPrices of petrol and diesel will be reduced by the amount of duty cut with effect from tomorrow.<br \/>\nThe duty reduction will lead to a Rs 13,000 crore loss of revenue to the government during the remaining period of the fiscal. PTI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 3: Bowing to public pressure, the government today cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to moderate the relentless rise in fuel prices witnessed for the last three months. &#8220;Govt of India has reduced Basic Excise Duty rate on petrol and diesel [both branded and unbranded] by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}