{"id":359168,"date":"2020-06-25T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359168"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:49:21","slug":"govt-plans-new-import-tax-on-solar-equipments-starting-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-plans-new-import-tax-on-solar-equipments-starting-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans new import tax on solar equipments starting August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : India\u2019s renewable energy ministry has proposed imposing customs duty on some solar power equipment starting Aug. 1 as part of the country\u2019s goal of becoming self-sufficient, the Press Information Bureau said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has proposed taxing imports of solar cells, modules and inverters starting August, the statement said, citing power minister Raj Kumar Singh\u2019s interaction with the industry. The decision comes amid recent border skirmishes with China, which accounts for nearly 80% of module supplies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call for self-reliance, echoing a global sentiment to diversify supply chains in the post-pandemic world. Recent border tensions with China have made that campaign more urgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : India\u2019s renewable energy ministry has proposed imposing customs duty on some solar power equipment starting Aug. 1 as part of the country\u2019s goal of becoming self-sufficient, the Press Information Bureau said in a statement. The ministry has proposed taxing imports of solar cells, modules and inverters starting August, the statement said, citing power minister Raj Kumar Singh\u2019s interaction with the industry. The decision comes amid recent border skirmishes with China, which accounts for nearly 80% of module supplies in the country. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call for self-reliance, echoing a global sentiment to diversify supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359168","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}