No proposal to lower excise duty on petrol, diesel: Dharmendra Pradhan
February 10, 2021
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks at Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, February 10 - PTI
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks at Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, February 10 - PTI×
The price of petrol has reached ₹94.12 per litre in Mumbai, having risen 4 per cent since the start of the year
As petrol and diesel pries soar, the government is yet to consider lowering of the excise duty, Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
2021-02-10 17:05:19 GMT2021-02-11 01:05:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) The number of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections in India rose to nearly 288 million, thus catering to the needs of nearly 99.5 percent of the total population, federal minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan informed the parliament on Wednesday.
In a written reply to a question raised in the parliament, the minister said that implementation of the federal government s ambitious scheme - Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) (Prime Minister Clean Energy Scheme) resulted in an increase in national LPG coverage from 61.9 percent as on April 1, 2016, to 99.5 percent as of Jan. 1, 2021.
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan refutes Odisha’s claim of low railway allocations
Union Minister claims that allocations have gone up from Rs 838 crore in 2009-2014 period to Rs 4,126 crore in 2014-19
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BHUBANESWAR: Even as the state government rejected the East Coast Railway’s (ECoR) claim of increased allocation for Odisha in the 2021-22 Railway budget, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan stated that Narendra Modi government has all along been cooperative towards railway infrastructure development in Odisha.
Referring to Commerce and Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera’s allegation that allocation in the budget has been far less than expectation, Pradhan said, “Some people have been saying something without having facts.”
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