“Tough reforms are very difficult in the Indian context, we have too much of democracy...You needed political will to carry out these reforms (mining, coal, labour, agriculture) and many more reforms still need to be done,” Amitabh Kant said.
A little context, he is the previous CEO of NITI Aayog, the "company" in question.
Niti aayog is a government owned think tank/ company whose purpose it is to do bring and do feasibility studies of possible government policies. The person is a civil servant and this was his previous job.
The company isn't a multi-billion dollar company, it's basically the government, that too under the bureaucratic wing of the government.