Congress MEP JAIRAM RAMESH. File. | Photo Credit: PTI
Congress on Tuesday, August 26, 2025) questioned the government’s proposal to enable private companies to set up and operate nuclear power plants by changing two existing laws concerning this sector.
The opposition party asked whether the government was planning to bring accounts to the winter meeting of parliament and whether it would also bring a bill to create an independent regulatory body that is not part of an atomic energy facility.
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Congress’s chief Jairam Ramesh, in post X, said the Minister of Finance Nirmala Sithaman, while submitting the budget of the trade unions 2025-26, promised to strengthen nuclear energy by changing civil responsibility for the 2010 nuclear damage and atomic energy from 1962. Nuclear energy production sector.
“However, somewhat surprisingly, neither of these two laws were introduced at a recently closed parliamentary meeting. Will the accounts be introduced at a winter meeting for three months, ie, so what about the bill to create an independent regulatory body that is not part of atomic energy foundation?” Mr. Ramesh said and added that the draft Act on the Regulatory Authority is necessary to support private investments.
“He also recalls that with full support from Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, both ARUN JAITLEY and SUSHMA SWARAJ, played an important role in the completion of civil responsibility for the nuclear damage law.
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Published – August 26 2025 21:53
