{"id":963743,"date":"2025-09-23T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963743"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:50:07","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-hike-will-hurt-us-innovation-boost-indias-growth-amitabh-kant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-hike-will-hurt-us-innovation-boost-indias-growth-amitabh-kant\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee hike will hurt US innovation, boost India\u2019s growth: Amitabh Kant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Amitabh Kant, former CEO of NITI Aayog, has criticised the Trump administration\u2019s decision to impose a steep $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas, calling it a move that will weaken America\u2019s innovation ecosystem while creating fresh opportunities for India.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Kant said the policy would \u201cchoke US innovation and turbocharge India\u2019s,\u201d arguing that shutting the door on global talent would push the next wave of patents, research labs, startups, and innovations toward India\u2019s technology hubs in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and Gurugram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Amitabh Kant, former CEO of NITI Aayog, has criticised the Trump administration\u2019s decision to impose a steep $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas, calling it a move that will weaken America\u2019s innovation ecosystem while creating fresh opportunities for India. In a post on X, Kant said the policy would \u201cchoke US innovation and turbocharge India\u2019s,\u201d arguing that shutting the door on global talent would push the next wave of patents, research labs, startups, and innovations toward India\u2019s technology hubs in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and Gurugram.<\/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":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963743","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=963743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}