{"id":498216,"date":"2022-06-14T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498216"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:04:11","slug":"duty-on-solar-modules-cells-to-continue-dont-want-imports-power-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/duty-on-solar-modules-cells-to-continue-dont-want-imports-power-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Duty on solar modules, cells to continue; don\u2019t want imports: Power Min"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are \u201cno plans\u201d to review the basic customs duty (BCD) levied on solar modules and cells, Union Power Minister R K Singh has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want any Chinese imports and want everything Made in India,\u201d Singh, who is also the Minister of New and Renewable Energy told PTI in reply to a question related to the duty levied on the two items.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the government had announced imposing 40 per cent BCD on solar modules and 25 per cent on solar cells with effect from April 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<p> Singh said as a result of the duty, the domestic manufacturing capacity of modules and cells has started going up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are \u201cno plans\u201d to review the basic customs duty (BCD) levied on solar modules and cells, Union Power Minister R K Singh has said. \u201cI don\u2019t want any Chinese imports and want everything Made in India,\u201d Singh, who is also the Minister of New and Renewable Energy told PTI in reply to a question related to the duty levied on the two items. Last year, the government had announced imposing 40 per cent BCD on solar modules and 25 per cent on solar cells with effect from April 1, 2022. Singh said as a result of the duty, the [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498216","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=498216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}