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00:00Minister, new and renewable energy for the keynote address.

00:26Namaskar, Shri Sripadeshwar Naik, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Power, he

00:41is the most powerful minister in the entire group, because power, renewable energy.

00:48And Shri Atul Mureshwar Saweji, Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Government of Maharashtra.

00:59Kanubhai Mohanlal Desai, Minister for Finance and he is also, he is Minister for Energy

01:10and Minister for Finance.

01:14So, he is giving many exemptions, I will announce that now, whatever you have done.

01:20So, because he is in charge of finance, there is no problem.

01:26When the Prime Minister was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, when the world was not working

01:34on this, then he has come up with a set formula and he is under the leadership of the present

01:41Chief Minister, he is following it so well, that as of, as on date, they are number one

01:48and if you want to compete with them, you have to take a lot of…

02:12healthy competition.

02:14And Shri Sudhir Daudekarji, Minister for Non-Conventional Sources of Energy of the Goa.

02:25Prashant Kumar Singh, he is the most active secretary in recent days where I have seen

02:34and I hope he will continue also here.

02:38Shri Sudeep Jain, Additional Secretary and all other senior officials, Chhattisgarh,

02:49Dadar Nagar Haveli, Damandiv, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,

02:55all other officials, REC, Ministry of Renewable Energy, Ministry of Power.

03:06First of all, I would welcome you all and I would also thank Government of Maharashtra

03:12for having given all the facility for organizing this workshop here.

03:36In this region, how can we move forward faster?

03:42To think about this, to plan for this, we are sitting here.

03:52We have also made a commitment in the World Forum.

03:56Sometimes, some people, two days ago, we were sitting with the Power Minister.

04:05Even then, some people in this, Power Minister and Power Ministry,

04:10they were very, very, Central Power Minister and Central Power Ministry,

04:15they were very, very positive and firm.

04:17But in spite of that, some of the industries,

04:21they try to say that it is not possible for us,

04:26there is an issue of continuity of electricity,

04:29there is an issue of stable supply.

04:32Slowly, technology is also improving a lot.

04:37You all know better than me because you have been working in this sector

04:41and many technical officers who are present here, you know better than me,

04:45that technology is also changing.

04:49So, because of these technological advances

04:53and also because of the overall quantum,

04:57if you see,