<span style="color: #222222;">Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan has urged the Centre to reduce the cesses and surcharges being levied on petrol and diesel and merge them with the basic tax rates. In a statement in Chennai today, he said the merger will help the states to get their share from the proceeds of the Central taxes.<br />''<br />''He also reiterated his demand to continue the GST compensation mechanism even beyond the originally planned June 30 this year.</span><br />