A Quote by Narendra Modi
Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.
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African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.
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There are five different ways you can do it. You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay them. You know, we pay Mexico a subsidy. I don't know if you know. But the whole thing is ridiculous. We're paying everybody subsidy. We actually have a small portion of China where they get a subsidy from us because they haven't ended it for years.
In so many ways, our business is very, very unique. For example, in India, people pay with cash, and we accept cash from day one. And a lot of people in India pay with cash. And that's part of our business model.
Energy is our largest business in India but still has huge room to grow in new areas like renewables and distributed energy - as well as traditional gas and steam turbines and services.
I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.
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