Fuel tax cut a joint call of Centre & states: FM
March
Delhi, 5: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday acknowledged that consumers have a case for petrol and diesel prices to be brought down but said a reduction in taxes should be a joint call of the central and state governments.
As much as 60 per cent of the retail price of petrol—which has shot above the Rs 100-mark in some places in Rajasthan, MP and Maharashtra—is made up of central and state taxes. Taxes make up about 56 per cent of the record high diesel rates.
Sitharaman, who had increased central excise duty on petrol and diesel by a record margin last year to mop up gains arising from two-decade low international oil prices, remained non-committal on taking the first step to cut central taxes to give relief to consumers.
For consumers, "there is enough case to say that prices should be down, it’s a burden," she said while interacting with journalists at IWPC.
While the burden on the consumers is "understood", the pricing is a vexatious issue, she said.
"That's where I use the word 'dharamsankat'," she said. "It is a question which I would like states and the Centre to talk about because it's not just the Centre which has duties on petroleum products, it also has the states charging."
Preetesh Rawani cracked a triple century in the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s one-day league while S. Kotesh took six wickets in the two-day grade to emerge top performers on Friday.
Preetesh slammed 366 which contained 40 fours and 24 sixes to propel Roshanara to 608 for 9 in 50 overs against Starlets, for whom Karthik took 6 for
115. Starlets were all out for
258 in 46 overs, thanks to Om Prakash’s 5 for 24.
In another one-day match, Nagaraju’s 107 powered Gunrock to a four-wicket win over Ranga Reddy.
In the two-day games, Kotesh bowled Cheerful Chums to a big win over Rakesh XI with fine figures of 6 for 20 in nine overs.
Shanti XI’s Venkatesh Sheshadharan (5/26), CCOB’s Syed Azizuddin
(5/66) and Adilabad District’s Mahesh (125 n.o) were the other performers in the two-day section.
238 in 70.1 overs (V. Gowtham 55, K. R. Dhanush 53, D. Manish 37, Abdul Khaliq Khan 3/37, Syed Azizuddin
5/66 — 17.1-2-66-5). Points: CCOB 5, Ours 0.
Elegant 258 in 51.1 overs lost to Adilabad District 264/4 in 42.1 overs (Mahesh 125 n.o — 126b, 21x4, 3x6, Srinivas 87). Points: Adilabad District 5, Elegant 0.
Team Speed 236 in 67.3 overs vs Nizamabad District 193/7 in 46.4 overs (Y. Murali Krishna 55 n.o, Rohit Kumar 31, D. Manish Goud 5/55). Points: Speed 2, Nizamabad 2.
PKMCC 242/9 in 90 overs lost to Venus Cybertech 246/7 in 59.2 overs (Rishit Reddy 57, M. S. Karthikeya 45, Chaitanya Charan 35, K. Naveen 52, B. Sujan Kumar 3/41, T. Sourabh 3/56). Points: Venus Cybertech 5, PKMCC 0.
Crown 220 in 65.2 overs lost to HBCC 222/5 in 44 overs (Vara Prasad 73, Yash Dubey 40 n.o). Points: HBCC 5, Crown 0.
Shalimar 317 in 62.5 overs bt HUCC
302 in 83.4 overs (Prudhvi Naik 30, Sree Madhav 56, Pranav Chandra
50). Points: Shalimar 5, HUCC 0. Brothers XI 167 in 60.3 overs (Likith 30, Ajay 51, Ershad Pasha
3/32, Shyam Reddy 4/30) lost to Vijay CC 168/4 in 25 overs (B. Shiva
74 n.o, Badal 62). Points: Vijay CC 5, Brothers XI 0.
Adams XI 362 in 54.4 overs bt Bharat 277 in 61.4 overs (B. Bhargav
77, Aditya Varma 40, Suraj Rao 31 n.o, M. Balaji 3/3, Khaled Khan
4/72). Points: Adams 5, Bharat 0.
Hyderabad Cricket Academy 277 in
70.5 overs bt SK Blues 152 in 32 overs (Mohd Afzal Ali 38, Siddharth Rao 35, Zaheer Abbas 4/33, G Gunavith
4/59). Points: Academy 5, Blues 0. Secunderabad Gymkhana 525/7 in 90 overs bt Mayura 61 in 30.5 overs (Vignesh 3/7). Points: Gymkhana 5, Mayura 0.
Warangal District 281 in 69.4 overs bt Vijaypuri Willowmen 197 in
75.5 overs (Aashlesh Vaman 54, N. Pavan Reddy 4/20). Points: Warangal 5, Willowmen 0.
ONE-DAY LEAGUE
Roshanara 608/9 in 50 overs (Deeapk Tak 80, Preetesh Rawani
366 — 40x4, 24x6, Karthik 6/115) bt Starlets CC 258 in 46 overs (Venkat
49, Praneeth 54, Shashank 41, Lokesh 3/54, Om Prakash 5/24).
Ranga Reddy 247/9 in 50 overs (Nimal Reddy 94, Neeraj 33, Arijit
3/37, Aryan Reddy 4/27) lost to Gunrock 252/6 in 36.2 overs (Shubham Sahu 30, Nagaraju 107, Utkarsh 3/61).
Team Kun 160 in 47.3 overs (Navaneeth Reddy 30, Sai Charan
3/28, Raj Suryansh 3/34) lost to LNCC 161/5 in 23.2 overs (Gopi 38. Pranav 58 n.o, Palash 3/43).
Consult CC 199 in 34 overs (Abhinav 37, Vamsi 3/7) lost to Safilguda 120/1 in 23.2 overs (Lokesh 71 n.o, Ayush 39).
Satya CC 104 in 39.5 overs (Nanda
39, Pavan Sai 3/10) lost to Golconda
105/3 in 19.4 overs (Chatrapathi
40).