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I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.
Piyush Goyal
Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.
I am still fairly confident we will come out better than the West in terms of our overall development versus damage.
Prime Minister Modi keeps challenging the system to keep performing better and better. He sets aggressive targets, and the whole system has to act.
I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.
Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.
When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators.
In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.
Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.
There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.
India has been developing its green energy resources.
I am very friendly with the people of India, and corporates are also a part of that.
You only expect something from somebody you have confidence can deliver.
My solar energy programme alone will generate about a million jobs.
I am a person always with an open mind.
We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have done work on it. Some of them have done offshore wind projects. So we're looking at learning from the best from all across the world. My approach is to get the best out of each one.
People of India deserve to be complimented for making the 2014 elections a referendum on the misrule of the Congress-led UPA and demonstrating their faith in a proven new leadership.
People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.
I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.
If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce the GDP.
You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.
Western countries can cut down coal and replace it by renewables; I will need to have more coal.
I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution.
The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.
States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.
Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.
If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.
In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.
Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.
I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.
Gujaratis are smart people.
Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.
Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.
I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.
Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
I don't interfere with regulators.
You have to decide that you will be the best.
Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business.
Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.
More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.
By using LED bulbs, one can contribute, in their way, to overcome global warming.
For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.
Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
I can't inject renewables into a grid that doesn't have base load.
I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.
Power for all includes people who are interested in getting a connection. It cannot be for people who don't want the connection. Having said that, I am confident everybody will apply for power once they are sure that they will not be short-charged.
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