Quotes from Piyush Goyal

When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.

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.

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

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

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.

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.

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.

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

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

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

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.

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

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.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

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.

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

You only expect something from somebody you have confidence can deliver.

The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.

I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.

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 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.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

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.