PETROL, DIESEL, CNG, Toll, tires, vehicle insurance, everything has become more expensive, the cost of transporters (TRANSPORTATION) has increased significantly. As a result, fares of trucks, taxis, cabs, school vans, shuttle rickshaws have gone up. Inflation has skyrocketed.
For example, Rameshbhai, who lives in Rajkot, gets into fights with someone every day. Just yesterday, they had an altercation with a brother in a children’s school van. Because, as soon as the schools reopen after two years, Vanwala has increased the rent one and a half times. Earlier it was Rs 1,500 a month, now it has gone up to Rs 2,300. The reason for this is that Rameshbhai also knows, because he watches Money Nine videos every day, so he is also aware of the news hidden behind the news.
Petrol, diesel, CNG, insurance, tolls, tires have all become more expensive, which is directly related to transport, so the transport business has increased prices. Now, to send the children to school and to reach the office himself, he has to spend more than before and Rameshbhai objects to this increased cost.
Oops! Not only Rameshbhai, me, you and all of us are suffering from this inflation. The only difference is that the fire of inflation seems more intense to some, less so to others. This is because, even if you do not use petrol-diesel directly, you buy rations, right? Are you going to get fruits and vegetables? You don’t have your own vehicle, but you use auto, taxi, Ola, Uber, right? All these houses have been destroyed due to inflation. That’s why Uber taxi fares have also gone up by 15 per cent.
Truck drivers have to buy expensive diesel, which carries goods from factories, vegetables, fruits, etc. from farms to your home. Diesel accounts for 70 per cent of the cost of transporters, as a result of which diesel has become more expensive and transporters have also increased fares. Rents have risen by five per cent in the last one month. If you look at this chart, you will understand why the prices of oranges from Nagpur and coconuts from the southern states have gone up. The prices are the same till March 31 and the prices are going up even after that.
Petrol-diesel prices have risen 15 times in the last fortnight. In Delhi, a liter of petrol costs Rs 106 while diesel costs Rs 97. In Mumbai, a liter of petrol costs Rs 121 while diesel costs Rs 105. Hardly any city has survived without a century in petrol and diesel prices. Transporters demand that the government control the price of petrol and diesel and bring it under GST.
Thus, the rise in prices of petrol, diesel, CNG has sharpened the sword of inflation and the cost of living is rising on one side and not on the other.
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