{"id":417153,"date":"2021-05-27T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T07:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417153"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T07:03:42","slug":"solar-make-in-india-needs-a-long-term-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-make-in-india-needs-a-long-term-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Make-in-India needs a long-term strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To bolster Make-in-India for the solar sector, the Centre recently announced a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for solar manufacturing with a budget of Rs 4,500 crore over five years. Basic customs duty of 25% on cells and 40% on panels will also be levied on imported panels starting April 2022. These measures follow a slew of efforts over the past decade to establish domestic solar panel manufacturing. However, several issues remain, including a volatile domestic market and weak industrial innovation capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To bolster Make-in-India for the solar sector, the Centre recently announced a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for solar manufacturing with a budget of Rs 4,500 crore over five years. Basic customs duty of 25% on cells and 40% on panels will also be levied on imported panels starting April 2022. These measures follow a slew of efforts over the past decade to establish domestic solar panel manufacturing. However, several issues remain, including a volatile domestic market and weak industrial innovation capabilities.<\/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-417153","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\/417153","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=417153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}