{"id":361488,"date":"2020-07-06T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361488"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:20:09","slug":"india-should-focus-on-15-items-of-imports-to-achieve-self-reliance-assocham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-should-focus-on-15-items-of-imports-to-achieve-self-reliance-assocham\/","title":{"rendered":"India should focus on 15 items of imports to achieve self-reliance: Assocham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body Assocham has identified 15 large import items for ramping up the country&#8217;s domestic capacity to achieve the objective of Aatmanirbhar Bharat or self-reliant India in 2-3 years.<\/p>\n<p>These items include electronics, coal, iron-steel, non-ferrous metals and vegetable oils, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis, based on the latest data, shows that the electronics goods are the largest non-oil import segment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the country being under partial lockdown, India imported electronic goods worth USD 2.8 billion only in May, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the circumstance of the industry operating in a normal way, these imports are near about USD 5 billion a month &#8211; a huge drain on the forex which needs to be curtailed,&#8221; Assocham said in a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body Assocham has identified 15 large import items for ramping up the country&#8217;s domestic capacity to achieve the objective of Aatmanirbhar Bharat or self-reliant India in 2-3 years. These items include electronics, coal, iron-steel, non-ferrous metals and vegetable oils, among others. The analysis, based on the latest data, shows that the electronics goods are the largest non-oil import segment. Despite the country being under partial lockdown, India imported electronic goods worth USD 2.8 billion only in May, 2020. &#8220;In the circumstance of the industry operating in a normal way, these imports are near about USD 5 billion a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361488","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}