{"id":951976,"date":"2025-08-02T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951976"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:51:47","slug":"iceas-mohindroo-seeks-5-gst-says-mobile-production-declines-to-22-crore-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/02\/iceas-mohindroo-seeks-5-gst-says-mobile-production-declines-to-22-crore-units\/","title":{"rendered":"ICEA&#8217;s Mohindroo seeks 5% GST, says mobile production declines to 22-crore units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) levied on mobile handsets in India should be brought down to 5%, while the volume of units manufactured domestically is reduced to 22 crores (220 million), an industry group executive said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mobile phones should have been at a 5% GST. We had a benchmark of 12%. Today, it is 18%. This is a major task to drive affordability,&#8217; Pankaj Mohindroo, president, India Cellular &amp; Electronics Association (Icea) said, adding that smartphone production volume has come down to 22 crores, from 30 crores units previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) levied on mobile handsets in India should be brought down to 5%, while the volume of units manufactured domestically is reduced to 22 crores (220 million), an industry group executive said Thursday. &#8216;Mobile phones should have been at a 5% GST. We had a benchmark of 12%. Today, it is 18%. This is a major task to drive affordability,&#8217; Pankaj Mohindroo, president, India Cellular &amp; Electronics Association (Icea) said, adding that smartphone production volume has come down to 22 crores, from 30 crores units previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}