New Delhi, April 11 -- The Indian government has today hiked export duty, i.e. windfall tax, on diesel by Rs.34 per litre to Rs.55.5/litre, from Rs.21.5/litre, with immediate effect, PTI reported.

The duty has also been hiked for air turbine fuel (ATF) to Rs.42/litre with immediate effect, it added citing a notification from the Ministry of Finance on 11 April (Saturday).

Further, it has also raised excise to high-speed diesel to Rs.24 and infra cess to Rs.36, as per an Economic Times report.

The government had, on March 26, imposed an export duty of Rs.21.50 a litre on diesel, and Rs.29.5 per litre on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). The duties were levied to increase domestic availability of the fuel amid the war in West Asia.

They were...