{"id":989138,"date":"2026-02-02T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989138"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:36:06","slug":"india-lifts-tax-weight-to-build-tech-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/india-lifts-tax-weight-to-build-tech-muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"India lifts tax weight to build tech muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced an array of steps aimed at getting technology and AI firms to invest billions of dollars in establishing data centres and global capability centres as well as electronics and chip manufacturing plants. <\/p>\n<p>Foreign firms setting up data centres in India will not be taxed up to 2047. PM Narendra Modi said tax concession will &#8220;make India the world&#8217;s data centre hub.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said investments in data centres will rise to $200 billion, up from the current $70 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced an array of steps aimed at getting technology and AI firms to invest billions of dollars in establishing data centres and global capability centres as well as electronics and chip manufacturing plants. Foreign firms setting up data centres in India will not be taxed up to 2047. PM Narendra Modi said tax concession will &#8220;make India the world&#8217;s data centre hub.&#8221; Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said investments in data centres will rise to $200 billion, up from the current $70 billion.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989138","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=989138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}