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" Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages. "

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" 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. "

" I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies. "

" When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices. "

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" I am an optimist. "

" Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come. "

" The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance. "

" I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages. "

" I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right. "

" Foreign and domestic investors will come only when they know that you have enough power. "

" 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. "

" More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare. "

" 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. "

" Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things. "

" I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world. "

" 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. "

" India has been developing its green energy resources. "

" You have to decide that you will be the best. "

" Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses. "

" Centrally, I cannot interfere in states. "

" Western countries can cut down coal and replace it by renewables; I will need to have more coal. "