{"id":44265,"date":"2026-03-18T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44265"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:17:38","slug":"govt-urged-to-provide-petroleum-products-at-concessional-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/govt-urged-to-provide-petroleum-products-at-concessional-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt urged to provide petroleum products at concessional rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 18: General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, Pradip Paudel, has urged the government to provide petroleum products at a concessional rate.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal is suffering price hike owing to conflict in West Asia, General Secretary Paudel reminded, requesting the government that it paid heed to ensure essential fuel in discount.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only transport sector but all others will suffer after the price hike of petroleum products, causing increased bills of daily essentials and construction materials,&#8221; he said in a video message, stressing the need of promoting vehicles run on alternative energy.<\/p>\n<p>Paudel further said black marketing is an equally worrying issue at such situation, warranting a regular market monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 18: General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, Pradip Paudel, has urged the government to provide petroleum products at a concessional rate. Nepal is suffering price hike owing to conflict in West Asia, General Secretary Paudel reminded, requesting the government that it paid heed to ensure essential fuel in discount. &#8220;Not only transport sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44266,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265\/revisions\/44266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}