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SME Times News Bureau | 21 May, 2022
Amidst rising energy prices and inflation, the Central excise duty on
petrol has been cut by Rs 8 per litre and on diesel by Rs 6 per litre,
reducing the price of petrol by Rs 9.5 per litre and of diesel by Rs 7
per litre, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
"Today,
the world is passing through difficult times. Even as the world is
recovering from Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine conflict has brought in
supply chain problems and shortages of various goods. This is resulting
in inflation & economic distress in a lot of countries," she said in
a series of tweets.
The duty cut will have revenue implication of around Rs 1 lakh crore per year for the government.
Sitharaman
went on say that despite the challenging international situation, the
government has ensured that there are no shortages or scarcity of
essential goods. Even a few developed countries couldn't escape some
shortages or disruptions, she added.
The government is committed to ensuring that prices of essential items are kept under control, she said.
She
said: "I wish to exhort all state governments, especially the states
where reduction wasn't done during the last round (November 2021), to
also implement a similar cut and give relief to the common man."
In
yet another major move, the government has decided that this year it
will give a subsidy of Rs 200 per gas cylinder (upto 12 cylinders) to
over 9 crore beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.
"This will help our mothers and sisters. This will have a revenue implication of around Rs 6,100 crore a year."
Further,
it is also reducing the customs duty on raw materials and
intermediaries for plastic products where the country's import
dependence is high. It will result in reduction of cost of final
products.
A notification with specific details on all these mention moves will be issued by the Centre within the next hours.
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