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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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" India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal. "

" 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. "

" Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA. "

" I am an optimist. "

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

" Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving. "

" I am still fairly confident we will come out better than the West in terms of our overall development versus damage. "

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

" 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. "

" 24/7 power is going to happen; it is not a question of possible or impossible. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things. "

" 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. "

" Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control. "

" Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large. "

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

" I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I don't interfere with regulators. "

" We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices. "

" I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side. "

" 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. "

" 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. "