The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
Piyush Goyal
Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
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.
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team, including states, parties, all schools of thought, all sections of society.
Western countries have gone through their development cycle and enjoyed the fruits of ruining the environment over many years and are now giving us homilies and pontificating on responsibilities to the environment. I think they need to look inward.
I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.
Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business.
It is important to take into account the total power cost borne by consumers after taking into account what they spend on inverters and gensets.
Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.
We aim to encourage investments that ease our supply-side bottlenecks, such as rural roads, cold-storage, and grain-warehouses, which will also help us combat inflation.
Gujaratis are smart people.
By using LED bulbs, one can contribute, in their way, to overcome global warming.
I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators.
The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.
I am very friendly with the people of India, and corporates are also a part of that.
Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.
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.
Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.
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.
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
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.
I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.
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.
We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.
Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.
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.
I will reach out to all states uniformly... I can assure you I will take two steps for every step they extend.
I don't interfere with regulators.
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.
When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.
I can't inject renewables into a grid that doesn't have base load.
India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.
There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.
I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.
Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.
Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.
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.
I am an optimist.
Anyone leaving the Congress' camp and joining - or even indirectly praising - the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of losing this Congress-issued certificate of secularism. It is a travesty!
In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.
Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.
India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.
A visionary leadership is required to harness rapid technological change for positive benefit rather than allowing to become disruptive and further exacerbate economic inequality.
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.
Gujarat under Narendra Modi has focused on good governance in the power sector and implemented long-term reforms as opposed to the short-term and anarchic methods adopted by Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.
Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.
If India moves towards 100 percent LED lighting, we will reduce almost 79 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will also reduce the electricity bills of people.
