Piyush Goyal Quotes
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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.
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The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.
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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.
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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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We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.
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I am an optimist.
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Prime Minister Modi keeps challenging the system to keep performing better and better. He sets aggressive targets, and the whole system has to act.
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Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
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Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.
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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.
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When you give a good offer, people take it.
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I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.
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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.
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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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India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.
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The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.
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When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.
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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.
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For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.
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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!
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24/7 power is going to happen; it is not a question of possible or impossible.
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We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices.
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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.
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India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.