{"id":286816,"date":"2019-08-09T05:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286816"},"modified":"2019-08-09T05:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:21:10","slug":"india-to-hike-import-duty-on-solar-equipment-in-coming-years-power-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-hike-import-duty-on-solar-equipment-in-coming-years-power-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India to hike import duty on solar equipment in coming years: Power Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a bid to encourage domestic manufacturing, India will increase import duty on solar equipment down the value chain in the coming years, Power Minister R K Singh said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now safeguard duty is imposed on solar equipment which will be diluted in few years. We will increase tariff on solar equipment down the value chain in coming years,&#8221; the minister said at a curtain raiser press conference on 3rd Global RE-Invest. <\/p>\n<p>Allaying fears that any hike in import duty may increase solar energy tariff bidding rate, he assured that it will not impact solar energy bidding process in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a bid to encourage domestic manufacturing, India will increase import duty on solar equipment down the value chain in the coming years, Power Minister R K Singh said on Thursday. &#8220;Right now safeguard duty is imposed on solar equipment which will be diluted in few years. We will increase tariff on solar equipment down the value chain in coming years,&#8221; the minister said at a curtain raiser press conference on 3rd Global RE-Invest. Allaying fears that any hike in import duty may increase solar energy tariff bidding rate, he assured that it will not impact solar energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}