Nuclear Accidents

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding death of five children after drowning in brick kiln pits, Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, 05/01/2024

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …

Amendments to the Civil Liability for Nuclear damage Bill, 2010

The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 seeks to create a mechanism for compensating victims of nuclear damage arising from a nuclear incident. The Standing Committee tabled its report in Parliament on August 19, 2010, following which the government circulated a list of amendments to the Bill.

Nuclear industry objects to clauses in liability bill

K.BalchandNEW DELHI: The Indian nuclear industry on Tuesday objected to certain provisions in the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010, fearing that it could hamper and completely undo the government's efforts at accelerating nuclear power generation.In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Federation of Indian Chambers of …

Nuclear liability Bill need not be diluted

B B Singh EVERYBODY is waiting for Wednesday morning, when the Government will circulate copies of proposed official amendments to the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, likely to be taken up for passage in Lok Sabha the same day.The Government has indicated that it wanted a "broad national consensus". It was …

Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (25/08/2010)

Read this Discussion in Lok Sabha on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010.The bill has been approved after the government agreed to opposition’s demand for strengthening a contentious provision relating to suppliers' liability in the legislation. See Also Report: Parliamentary Committee on Nuclear Liability Bill www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313253 Bill: Civil Liability …

The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 - As passed by Lok Sabha on 25th August, 2010

The Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, 2010 that got approved in Lok Sabha on Aug 25, 2010 after government dropped the controversial provision on "intent" as a precondition for holding suppliers liable for a nuclear accident caused by defective equipment. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 aims to provide …

BJP, Left to push for nuclear bill changes in House

Neena VyasNEW DELHI: With no fresh contact on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill between the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party

Cabinet protects foreign nuclear suppliers

THE Government's intent was under scrutiny on Sunday with the BJP and the Left parties objecting to the word in the Cabinet-approved draft of the Nuclear Liability Bill and the intent behind it.Post this development, the BJP made its "intent" clear: It would oppose the Bill in its present form. …

Liability bill will cripple our technology, says Gopalakrishnan

K.P.M. Basheer KOCHI: The former Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Chairman, A. Gopalakrishnan, has said the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill will lead to clipping the country's indigenous nuclear technology capabilities. A critic of the New Delhi-Washington nuclear deal, he told The Hindu that the new law would open the …

Govt drops controversial word in N-Bill

Under attack from Opposition parties for trying to

Cabinet clears nuclear liability bill

Smita Gupta New Delhi: The government was in damage control mode on Friday

BJP won't back nuclear bill without supplier liability

Neena Vyas NEW DELHI: The shortlived agreement on civil nuclear liability between the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party gave way on Thursday to a fresh round of bargaining with the Opposition party telling government managers it was not ready to vote for the proposed bill if it diluted in …

Govt drops controversial word in nuclear liability Bill

NEW DELHI, 20 AUG: Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, the government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability Bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by …

Opinion Bill must cover nuclear sub

A Gopalakrishnan Parliament must recognise that the nuclear reactor installed in INS Arihant represents a high potential risk for causing a major nuclear accident If INS Arihant

Government set to let suppliers off the hook

Siddharth Varadarajan Parliamentary Standing Committee proposes major dilution of nuclear liability Bill Two Left MPs submit dissent notes, protesting dilution of 17(b)

Nuclear deal: Elusive benefits, tangible costs

Brahma Chellaney With accident-liability protection constituting another layer of state subsidy to foreign reactor vendors, the spectre of dozens of Enrons in the nuclear-energy sector is real. The controversial Indo-U.S. nuclear deal was pushed through without building

Liability Bill will provide immediate compensation: Subbarami Reddy

Neena Vyas T. Subbarami Reddy, MP and Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, addressing a press conference in connection with the nuclear liability Bill in New Delhi on Wednesday. The former Goa Chief Minister, Francisco Sardinha, is at left. NEW DELHI: The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, …

Deal paves way for nuclear liability Bill

Operator liability cap trebled to Rs. 1,500 crore NEW DELHI: A smooth passage in Parliament of the proposed nuclear civil liability Bill was ensured by the Union government on Tuesday after it took on board most of the suggestions made by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Among the changes agreed upon …

Government ready to say no' to private nuclear operators

Neena VyasNEW DELHI: There were strong indications on Monday that the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party were close to arriving at consensus on the proposed nuclear civil liability Bill.The government is

Panel on nuclear Bill to give report next week

The nuclear liability Bill was delayed after the parliamentary panel examining the controversial legislation today sought a week

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