Piyush Goyal Quotes
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More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.
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I am very friendly with the people of India, and corporates are also a part of that.
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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.
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In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.
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As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.
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Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.
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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.
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Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.
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I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.
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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.
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I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.
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I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.
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Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
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Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
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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.
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It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.
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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.
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With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.
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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.
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States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.