{"id":504905,"date":"2022-07-13T10:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504905"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T05:28:53","slug":"gst-hike-to-nullify-progress-of-last-8-years-led-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gst-hike-to-nullify-progress-of-last-8-years-led-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"GST hike to nullify progress of last 8 years: LED makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The increase in the GST rate on LED bulbs to 18% will nullify the efforts made by the government in the last eight years to replace incandescent bulbs, according to manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>LED lamp manufacturers including Bajaj, Havells NSE 0.87 % and Century said the rate hike would widen the gap between inefficient bulbs and LED lamps and slow down the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increase in the GST rate on LED bulbs to 18% will nullify the efforts made by the government in the last eight years to replace incandescent bulbs, according to manufacturers. LED lamp manufacturers including Bajaj, Havells NSE 0.87 % and Century said the rate hike would widen the gap between inefficient bulbs and LED lamps and slow down the transition.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504905","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=504905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}