diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 686550b0..d13c3111 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 import setuptools
 
-import embedchain.version
-
 
 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="embedchain",
-    version=embedchain.version.__version__,
+    version="0.0.22",
     author="Taranjeet Singh",
     author_email="reachtotj@gmail.com",
     description="embedchain is a framework to easily create LLM powered bots over any dataset",  # noqa:E501