{"id":531282,"date":"2022-10-21T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=531282"},"modified":"2022-10-21T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:34:21","slug":"solar-imports-excluded-from-duty-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-imports-excluded-from-duty-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar imports excluded from duty scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has excluded solar power projects from the list of goods that can avail of a concessional 7.5% import duty under the project imports scheme, a move criticised by solar power developers. The government said the exclusion plugged a loophole that allowed developers to bypass the 40% import duty imposed on solar projects to encourage local manufacturing. <\/p>\n<p>Solar power developers said the decision is a major setback to the country&#8217;s solar power capacity addition plan and they might consider legal options opposing the differential treatment as only solar power plants have been excluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has excluded solar power projects from the list of goods that can avail of a concessional 7.5% import duty under the project imports scheme, a move criticised by solar power developers. The government said the exclusion plugged a loophole that allowed developers to bypass the 40% import duty imposed on solar projects to encourage local manufacturing. Solar power developers said the decision is a major setback to the country&#8217;s solar power capacity addition plan and they might consider legal options opposing the differential treatment as only solar power plants have been excluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-531282","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\/531282","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}