{"id":413631,"date":"2021-05-05T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413631"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:13:39","slug":"for-solar-atmanirbharta-rethink-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/for-solar-atmanirbharta-rethink-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"For solar atmanirbharta, rethink duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MNRE has announced plans to levy basic customs duties (BCD) on imports of solar PV modules and cells to help reduce India\u2019s reliance on external supply and promote domestic solar manufacturing. While this is laudable, the proposed measure (rates of 40% on modules and 25% on cells) merits closer examination on three counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MNRE has announced plans to levy basic customs duties (BCD) on imports of solar PV modules and cells to help reduce India\u2019s reliance on external supply and promote domestic solar manufacturing. While this is laudable, the proposed measure (rates of 40% on modules and 25% on cells) merits closer examination on three counts.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413631","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=413631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}