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Jairam Ramesh

(1954) Economist India

16 quotes in 193 categories

Jairam Ramesh is an economist from India, best known for Indira Gandhi.

Quick Facts About Jairam Ramesh

Born: April 9, 1954
Nationality: India
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Indira Gandhi

About Jairam Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh is a senior Indian politician to the Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However, in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he was divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jairam Ramesh

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get…

Cleanliness

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The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no…

America

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Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Agitation

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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Dirt

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WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage…

Advantage

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India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Conservation

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Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got…

Constellations

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The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade-…

Basically

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There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick…

Courage

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India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

Change

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Don’t get married in a house where there is no toilet,

Home

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I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but…

Causes

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It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All…

China

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A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America…

Agricultural

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Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is…

Acquire

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Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make;…

Although

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