Former NITI Aayog CEO says India must phase out combustion-engine vehicles, scale up battery storage and transmission infrastructure, and move from a 'petro-state to electric state'.
Holtec International CEO tells ThePrint in exclusive interview that the firm will soon begin talks with India’s nuclear regulator AERB for approval of design of their 300 MWe SMRs.
The 2800 MWe nuclear power plant is set to be inaugurated by PM Modi next week. Govt has set an ambitious target of 100 GW nuclear power capacity by 2047.
The need of the hour is for India to forge an ambitious SMR public-private partnership with the US–the country that spearheaded the exception for India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group 16 years ago.
In 'white paper', CM says state’s own revenues almost entirely consumed by salaries, while central funds service debt & interests. ‘State has to borrow even to fund basic welfare schemes.’
The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.
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