{"id":363219,"date":"2020-07-17T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363219"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:35:21","slug":"govt-mulls-20-customs-duty-on-solar-power-equipment-to-cut-imports-thakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mulls-20-customs-duty-on-solar-power-equipment-to-cut-imports-thakur\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls 20% customs duty on solar power equipment to cut imports: Thakur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a proposal by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to impose 20% basic customs duty on solar modules to provide an edge to domestic manufacturers and discourage imports, particularly from China, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>While the government has taken a number of steps to increase capacities in the renewable energy sector in the last few years, it is now time to cut down reliance on imports of solar equipment and components, especially from China, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Chinese firms supply about 80% of solar cells and modules in the Indian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a proposal by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to impose 20% basic customs duty on solar modules to provide an edge to domestic manufacturers and discourage imports, particularly from China, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said on Thursday. While the government has taken a number of steps to increase capacities in the renewable energy sector in the last few years, it is now time to cut down reliance on imports of solar equipment and components, especially from China, the minister said. Currently, Chinese firms supply about 80% of solar cells and [&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-363219","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\/363219","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=363219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}