On the sidelines...!

                  

• Bikram Majithia, in an attempt to tell the gathering of his enthusiasm in getting the project started, had the gathering in splits. He said one of the project developers was undergoing a nasty divorce. “But I told him, don’t sacrifice this project because of your failing marriage. Luckily for me, the project has been commissioned and he (the developer) has got the divorce,” he said
• Principal Secretary Industries and CEO of Invest Punjab, Anirudh Tewari, was definitely the man of the moment, with both Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal and Majithia showering praises on him for keeping the solar mission on track
• Majithia sought a loan of Rs 200 crore from IREDA chairman KS Popli, who said he was expecting a request for a much bigger loan amount. Majithia was quick to reply, “You have spent two hours here and have to give us Rs 200 crore loan. Imagine if you were to travel five hours with me, I would have forced you to give us a Rs 5,000 crore loan”
• Sukhbir told the gathering that "Solar Sardars" were responsible for the solar revolution in Punjab. Referring to Bikram Singh Majithia; KS Popli, MD of IREDA; Upkar Singh Sandhu, chairman of Punjab Energy Development Agency; and two other Punjabis - Anirudh Tewari and Tarun Kapur, joint secretary in the Ministry of Renewable Energy, Badal said that the "sardars" of Punjab were taking the country forward in green energy.