SHILLONG, July 1

Rajasthan has announced concessions and tax relief to customers on diesel, domestic cooking gas and kerosene to comply with the recent Congress directive to the party-run governments in the States in the wake of the hike in the prices of petroleum products.

In a bid to provide some relief to the people following recent hike in petroleum product prices, the Odisha government on Tuesday decided to waive VAT on LPG and kerosene.

As a measure of relief to the people of the state, we have decided that VAT will be completely waived on LPG and PDS kerosene, chief minister Naveen Patnaik told reporters here.

He said that this was the maximum possible r

The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday reduced the VAT on diesel and kerosene by 2%.

There has been no reduction on LPG prices as Maharashtra doesn't charge VAT on it.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to withdraw the hike in the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG in view of the large-scale protests against it.

Uttarakhand on Monday said it would waive value added tax on kerosene, and not charge VAT on the amount increased recently for diesel and LPG by the Centre.

Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said his government was taking the step to lessen the sufferings of the people reeling under the pressure of rising inflation due to

The Himachal Pradesh Government on Monday exempted kerosene from value added tax and reduced the tax on diesel to 9.70 per cent from the present 14 per cent to provide relief to people from the recent hike in prices of petroleum products.

There would be zero VAT on kerosene, a relief of 13.5 per cent, while reduction in VAT on diesel would be 4.30 per cent, an official spokesman said.

The Ce

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday decided to make the LPG cylinder cheaper by `40 for the BPL and Antyodaya card holders. It also decided to make diesel 37 paise cheaper in the city.

New Delhi Despite a wider excise duty difference between petrol and diesel, the group of ministers on fuel pricing led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled out imposing any additional excise duty on diesel cars, which was proposed last year in a report by former Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh that formed the basis for sweeping oil price revisions last year.

After the governme

Agartala: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led ruling Left Front in Tripura on Saturday called for a 12-hour shutdown in the state Monday to protest against the hike in fuel prices.