Parliament passes Civil Nuclear Liability Bill

Parliament passes Civil Nuclear Liability Bill
indian-parliamentParliament has passed the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill 2010. It provides for 1500 crore rupees of liability cap on suppliers in case of a nuclear accident and paves the way for India to have nuclear commerce with the international community. The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Monday after rejecting the amendments through voice vote while the Lok Sabha adopted it last week. It provides for that the operator will have a right to recourse with supplier only after paying the compensation to the victims promptly.

Replying the debate on the bill the minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan asserted that one of the main objectives of this legislation is to ensure prompt payment to the victims in case of a nuclear accident. He noted that in case changes are needed in the legislation in future, government is open for it. Mr. Chavan added that the compensation of 1500 crore rupees is at par with the United States. He thanked the opposition for constructive suggestions which has made this legislation more comprehensive than it was at the time of tabling. The Minister added that the Prime Minister was keen to hold extensive discussions on this important bill of national importance and it was done taking all the stake holders on board.

Mr. Prithviraj Chavan admitted that Public Liability Insurance Law provides for low compensation of just 25 thousand rupees and this will be amended suitably. The Minister reiterated the Prime Minister’s commitment in the Lok Sabha that government is keen to strengthen the regulatory mechanism. Mr. Chavan said that the passage of this bill will open up vast opportunities for India to meet the growing energy demand and prove a booster in maintaining the tempo of growth. He added its approval marks the end of nuclear apartheid against India.

The Bill was taken up for discussion in the Lok Sabha last week after government evolved a consensus on the contentious issues with the main Opposition. Immediately after the introduction of the bill in the Budget session of Parliament it was referred to the Parliamentary standing committee on science and technology. The committee after holding discussions with opposition and other stake holders recommended 18 amendments. These amendments were incorporated in the Bill after cabinet nod.

Participating in the debate on the bill, while the opposition BJP questioned the government’s objective for pushing the bill fast and called for a greater national debate on the issue was needed to discuss its pros and cons. The left Parties described the bill against the interests of the country. They also alleged that the bill is being passed under external pressure. The members of the ruling alliance supported the bill describing it a revolutionary step to meet the growing energy demand of the country and said it will open gates for India to have access to higher technology. The discussion was initiated by leader of the Opposition, Arun Jaitely. Members from CPIM, BJD, CPI,BSP, DMK,SP also participated in the discussion.

India has already signed civil nuclear pacts with several countries including France, United States and Russia. New Delhi is now holding discussions with Japan to have an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation with Tokyo. The civil Nuclear Commerce is estimated worth 150 billion dollars over the next twenty years.

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  1. August 31st, 2010 at 08:36 | #1
    Forget Parliament. I am India’s expert in strategic defence and the father of India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missiles Development Program. I have shown in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Google search with the title, that all terrorism and insurgencies in the Indian subcontinent and in much of the rest of the world is sponsored by the C.I.A. Both Pakistan’s ISI and India’s RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) function as branches of the C.I.A. and participate in terrorism and insurgencies throughout the Subcontinent, under direction of the C.I.A. Yes, the ISI secretly supports the Taliban but it does so under direction from the C.I.A. whose modus operandi is support for ALL sides of a conflict to control the course of the conflict in service of its own goals. The goal of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and partial occupation of Pakistan is eventual occupation and overt colonial rule over the Subcontinent as a whole. This will not be permitted and all those participating in this enterprise, including the U.K., will be duly punished; see my blog. The document leak currently in the news has been made in preparation for abandonment of this goal and withdrawal from Afghanistan because of steps I have already taken for the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and then the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States by India with 5,000 thermonuclear warheads and extermination of its population; see my blog. It also shows how India has been kept economically and technologically down by military means and how exterminating the United States’ population will solve that problem. Indians need to realize the determining role of force even in economic relations. When insects such as Pranab Mukherjee talk of closer economic relations between India and the United States, they mean making Indians into slave labor for the American consumer as the Chinese have become so that the Americans no longer produce things, the Chinese toil to produce things for them to consume and all the Americans have to do is keep the whip over the Chinese and get the cooperation of China’s ruling class by giving employment to their family members in the United States as they do to Indians. This master-slave relationship can be reversed or ended by bringing superior force to bear against the United States. Only I can provide such superior force to India and make India master, rather than slave, of the United States, exercising the power of life and death over the Americans and exterminate them to put an end to this scourge. See my article ‘How India’s Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More’ in my blog. India must get rid of 90% of its conventional forces and replace them with nuclear forces. Conventional forces are worthless for destroying the United States. Taking care of the enemy United States will take care of all other enemies. It is not just the production of consumer goods that the United States has transferred to slaves abroad. It is doing so for its fighting and invading as it has transferred its fighting and invading to Pakistan and is on the way to doing so with India. It is not just that all insurgencies and terrorism in India is C.I.A.-sponsored; so is the sea piracy around Somalia etc. which has been used to draw the Indian Navy into serving under the United States and these buggers are only too happy to resume the role they used to play for the British in Mesopotamia and elsewhere in World War I and II, etc. RAW was split off from the Intelligence Bureau which had continued after 1947 to be loyal to the British. Later the Americans supplanted the British and RAW functions as a branch of the CIA against India. RAW’s grip over India is comparable to the old KGB’s grip over the Soviet Union, with the difference that whereas the KGB worked for the good of the Soviet Union, except toward the end, RAW has always worked for its imperialist paymasters. The role of politicians in governing India is insignificant compared to that of CIA-RAW but RAW has no place in the public’s consciousness or in discussions of public affairs in India. It is India’s real ‘government’ — just its joint secretaries number in the hundreds — and politicians and civil servants largely obey its dictates. Any one, even a prime minister, whom CIA-RAW considers inconvenient is eliminated, if necessary by death, as I have shown regarding the deaths of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and, later, Rajiv Gandhi in my blog. Examples of RAW’s multifarious activities are: sabotaging of indigenous research and development to keep India dependent on other countries for defence and other equipment; its spreading heroin addiction and AIDS first in India’s Northeast then elsewhere to provide the United States with a population to use as guinea pigs for AIDS vaccine development after the CIA was assigned the task of roping in a population for this purpose; and the nuclear deal in its various aspects — replacing indigenous production of uranium and reactors with imports, the capping, rollback and elimination of India’s nuclear weapons program, media control and buying up politicians, scientists, etc. for this purpose. The nuclear destruction of New Delhi will end C.I.A. rule over India; see my blog.
  2. September 13th, 2010 at 22:51 | #2
    I am India’s expert in strategic defence and the father of India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. I stated the objections to the nuclear deal in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, as follows:- 1) The first and a fundamental objection is spending untold billions of dollars on imported reactors instead of ploughing the money into India’s own nuclear power program more advanced and more capable (thanks to its nuclear “isolation” and apartheid) than that of the United States in important ways. It can be expanded 10 or 20-fold so India becomes one of the world’s biggest EXPORTERS, not an IMPORTER, of the world’s best and most economical reactors with the shortest time for installation (all this is true of Indian reactors even at this moment). There is significant demand for Indian reactors from other countries. This by itself is enough reason to summarily and totally reject the nuclear deal. Indians, such as the head of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, S. K. Jain, say they will not export them unless they receive permission from the white master. In an act of treason, the National Security Adviser M. K. Nayanan has said that importing uranium from non-NSG countries — the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a cartel like OPEC — will be against “international law”. Similarly, in another act of treason, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee during his recent visit to Egypt said that India cannot engage in nuclear trade with other countries because it is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. These statements have gone unchallenged in India’s media controlled by CIA-RAW. India can extract an unlimited amount of uranium from sea water for which the Japanese demonstrated the technology and economic viability decades ago and for which India’s Department of Atomic Energy has developed indigenous technology but the United States has been suppressing this option because it will subvert its attempts to bring and keep countries like India in slavery and Indian politicians and scientists, bought up by the United States, are keeping quiet about it. 2) The second objection is that the imported reactors will be light water reactors. These will not only make India dependent in perpetuity on imported fuel and vulnerable to all kinds of pressures but, even if an unlimited amount of fuel was somehow magically guaranteed, it will fatally injure both India’s 3-stage nuclear power program and its nuclear weapons program. This is so even if there was not an upper limit of 20% enrichment while reprocessing the waste fuel from the imported reactors. Light water reactors are inherently “proliferation-resistant” (that is, it is difficult to get bomb-grade material from them), though not “proliferation-proof”. In any case, the 20% cap on enrichment (weapons and certain types of reactors require around 95% enrichment) cripples India’s strategic (nuclear weapons) program– because parity with or supremacy over the United States requires at least ten thousand nuclear warheads– and ensures permanent slavery to the white man and permanent serfdom to India. When the Russians offered the two light water reactors, now under construction in India at Kalpakkam, the Department of Atomic Energy had strongly opposed it correctly saying that it will only benefit the Russian nuclear industry and light water reactors will break India’s control over the nuclear fuel cycle and subvert India’s 3-stage nuclear power program as well as its nuclear weapons program. But Vajpayee shoved it down India’s throat on the instructions of the C.I.A. which calculated that there will be less resistance to such a disadvantageous deal with the Russians and once a couple of light water reactors have been brought in, it will set the stage for a full-scale American assault to subjugate and disembowel India’s nuclear program. A bought up Kakodkar is now lying and saying that importing Russian reactors was always in the plans. Press reports at the time of Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington in July, 2004, during which he signed the joint statement of July 18, 2004 with Bush about the nuclear deal, etc., had said Kakodkar had strenuously objected to the deal but was silenced by the traitor ambassador of India in Washington by saying the Prime Minister had to have a “successful” visit. After he was bribed, Bush asked Kakodkar, during his visit to New Delhi in March, 2006 if he was happy now. 3) Then there are the various requirements in the July 18 ‘05 joint statement such as separation of civilian and military reactors, IAEA inspections on the civilian reactors including all imported ones, the necessity to get Nuclear Suppliers Group approvals, etc. which cripple India’s nuclear program as a whole and bind it hand and foot to the United States. 4) Then there is the blizzard of demands and restrictions in the Hyde Act and previous U.S. legislation including the prohibition of testing (the latest ‘concession’ by the U.S. on testing simply says that, rather than a test resulting in automatic return of all imported U.S. equipment, the U.S. president may ALLOW India to conduct a test at his pleasure if India begs and convinces the White Master) that make India a total slave to the United States which, even under the documents, will be able to do any damn thing it wants to India in all its internal and external affairs– a serfdom that is comprehensive and complete. 5) Then there is the United States’ propensity and certainty of doing things to India– once it has India dependent on U.S. reactors, fuel, permissions, etc.– to arm-twist, blackmail and invade if the lesser breeds don’t do everything it wants them to do– the kind of things it has done and is doing to Iraq and will certainly do to India, including its complete nuclear disarmament, participation in U.S.-led military campaigns against other countries, the total colonisation of its economy and manpower to serve American needs, etc. Indians on the C.I.A.’s payroll have been pushing this deal which should have been and was instantly and totally rejected, not just by me. The BJP/Vajpayee came out with a written statement rejecting the deal within a couple days of the joint statement of July 18 ‘05 (before the Hyde Act, the 123 agreement, etc.) but they have been yielding to the transgressions of Manmohan Singh progressively and now Advani says everything is fine so long as India can conduct nuclear tests in a Pokhran III! This is extremely stupid, to take the most charitable view of him. [Since I wrote the above, it has become clear that the BJP's Jaswant Singh had made the deal with the U.S. in his numerous meetings with U.S. State Department official Talbott and subsequently, because of which he later congratulated Foreign Secretay Menon for having done a "superb job" of negotiating the 123 agreement and still later said there will be no major changes in the nuclear deal if the BJP returns to power. The BJP's show of opposition was to throw dust in the eyes of the people; see my blog for how, after British rule, India has been under C.I.A. rule]. Getting India’s nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards, whether or not India imports American reactors, has been a prime American goal because at least 75% of the damage to India’s nuclear program would have been done once the facilities are placed under IAEA inspections, even if nothing further is done and no nuclear deal with the United States is finally signed and no foreign reactors, from the United States or from Russia or France, are bought. Any move to put Indian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards, beyond the ones under IAEA inspections at present, is a grave injury to the nation and an invasion of India like the American invasion of Iraq and deserves a response appropriate to an invasion. If the nuclear deal with the United States is abandoned but IAEA inspections are brought in on the pretext that they are needed to import reactors and fuel from Russia — one prong of the American strategy and the Americans’ Indian collaborators has been to get the IAEA inspections in place without completing the nuclear deal with the United States and buy Russian reactors instead of American ones, to begin with — the import of Russian reactors instead of pumping the money into the indigenous nuclear program will be an additional injury. I have said India’s nuclear program should be designed and operated so that electricity is a byproduct of producing material for making weapons rather than material for making weapons being a byproduct of producing electricity. Manmohan Singh is still starving the Indian nuclear program of funds and still blocking the option of getting uranium from non-NSG countries, if necessary, though simply exploiting the uranium reserves in the country already known — at present only 300 tons per year is mined though the known reserves are over 78,000 tons not counting the extremely rich deposits recently found in Ladakh — is quite enough for India’s needs. It is a lie to say that India’s nuclear power production cannot be expanded beyond 10,000 MW on domestic uranium, though the production of electricity must be a byproduct of producing material for making weapons. A country that has ten thousand nuclear warheads and the means to deliver them to the continental United States cannot be restricted from importing, without IAEA inspections, etc., however much uranium it wants from wherever it wants by the United States or any other power; the power of nuclear weapons is what India needs; electricity can be produced in numerous other ways for the time being. Agreeing to even talks on new inspections with the IAEA — an instrument of American imperialism — are acts of treason and deserve punishment as severe as for the rest of the nuclear deal. Nuclear supremacy over the United States has to be India’s national objective and its one point agenda (see my articles ‘What is nuclear supremacy?’ and ‘Why nuclear supremacy?’ in my blog). The nuclear deal is totally incompatible with nuclear supremacy over the United States and deserves to be summarily rejected without going into any details. This is the most fundamental objection of all. I have repeatedly said there will be no nuclear deal and described in my blog steps I have already taken to enforce this by the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and then the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States by India with 5,000 nuclear warheads and extermination of its population.
  3. September 14th, 2010 at 22:21 | #3
    How the C.I.A. Killed Bhabha and Shastri I am India’s expert in strategic defence and the father of India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. I have written in my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, about how Robert Crowley, former Assistant Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations of the CIA, gave documents of his own top secret operations to his friend, historian Gregory Douglas and described in detail how the C.I.A. has done “business” with Russian intelligence agencies for many decades, how the C.I.A. directly arranged the plane crash which killed Homi Bhabha but relied on Russian intelligence agencies, with which it did “business”, to assassinate Shastri who had given a go ahead for an Indian nuclear weapons program. The Russian intelligence agencies — large parts of which were brought on the C.I.A.’s payroll — brought down the Soviet Union. After a letter of mine in Indian Express in the early nineties which appeared under the editor’s heading “Grab This Opportunity” regarding a Russian proposal to form a Russia-China-India alliance, P. V. Narasimha Rao sent the head of India’s submarine-launched ballistic missile program to Russia to get help, where he died as Shastri did. When, in a letter to the press, I pointed out that this was the “help” the Russians had provided, the Russians hastily withdrew a delegation that was visiting India. It will be the easiest thing in the world for Russian or other intelligence agencies to install devices in submarines etc. with which they can track them and, in keeping with their “business” relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies, enable the Americans to track them, too. I have said there should be an iron-clad rule against importing ANY defence equipment and I have also described the perils of importing electronic equipment, nuclear power plants and numerous other kinds of civilian and military equipment; see my blog. For a full treatment of India’s weapons, nuclear, economic and other issues, see my blog. A transcript of Douglas’s conversations with Crowley is available online (see my blog):- RTC: Now that’s something we never did. In fact, we prevented at least one nuclear disaster. GD: What? A humanitarian act? Why, I am astounded, Robert. Do tell me about this. RTC: Now, now, Gregory, sometimes we can discuss serious business. There were times when we prevented terrible catastrophes and tried to secure more peace. We had trouble, you know, with India back in the 60s when they got uppity and started work on an atomic bomb. Loud mouthed cow-lovers bragging about how clever they were and how they, too, were going to be a great power in the world. The thing is, they were getting into bed with the Russians. Of course, Pakistan was in bed with the chinks so India had to find another bed partner. And we did not want them to have any kind of nuclear weaponry because God knows what they would have done with it. Probably strut their stuff like a Washington nigger with a brass watch. Probably nuke the Pakis. They’re all a bunch of neo-coons anyway. Oh yes, and their head expert was fully capable of building a bomb and we knew just what he was up to. He was warned several times but what an arrogant prick that one was. Told our people to fuck off and then made it clear that no one would stop him and India from getting nuclear parity with the big boys. Loud mouths bring it all down on themselves. Do you know about any of this? GD: Not my area of interest or expertise. Who is this joker, anyway? RTC: Was, Gregory, let’s use the past tense if you please. Name was Homi Bhabha. That one was dangerous, believe me. He had an unfortunate accident. He was flying to Vienna to stir up more trouble when his 707 had a bomb go off in the cargo hold and they all came down on a high mountain way up in the Alps. No real evidence and the world was much safer. GD: Was Ali Baba alone on the plane? RTC: No it was a commercial Air India flight. GD: How many people went down with him? RTC: Ah, who knows and frankly, who cares? GD: I suppose if I had a relative on the flight I would care. RTC: Did you? GD: No. RTC: Then don’t worry about it. We could have blown it up over Vienna but we decided the high mountains were much better for the bits and pieces to come down on. I think a possible death or two among mountain goats is much preferable than bringing down a huge plane right over a big city. GD: I think that there were more than goats, Robert. RTC: Well, aren’t we being a bleeding-heart today. GD: Now, now, it’s not an observation that is unexpected. Why not send him a box of poisoned candy? Shoot him in the street? Blow up his car? I mean, why ace a whole plane full of people? RTC: Well, I call it as it see it. At the time, it was our best shot. And we nailed Shastri as well. Another cow-loving rag head. Gregory, you say you don’t know about these people. Believe me, they were close to getting a bomb and so what if they nuked their deadly Paki enemies? So what? Too many people in both countries. Breed like rabbits and full of snake-worshipping twits. I don’t for the life of me see what the Brits wanted in India. And then threaten us? They were in the sack with the Russians, I told you. Maybe they could nuke the Panama Canal or Los Angeles. We don’t know that for sure but it is not impossible. GD: Who was Shastri? RTC: A political type who started the program in the first place. Babha was a genius and he could get things done so we aced both of them. And we let certain people there know that there was more where that came from. We should have hit the chinks too, while we were at it but they were a tougher target. Did I tell you about the idea to wipe out Asia’s rice crops? We developed a disease that would have wiped rice off the map there and it’s their staple diet. The fucking rice growers here got wind of it and raised such a stink we canned the whole thing. The theory was that the disease could spread around and hurt their pocketbooks. If the Mao people invade Alaska, we can tell the rice people it’s all their fault. GD: I suppose we might make friends with them. RTC: With the likes of them? Not at all, Gregory. The only thing the Communists understand is brute force. India was quieter after Bhabha croaked. We could never get to Mao but at one time, the Russians and we were discussing the how and when of the project. Oh yes, sometimes we do business with the other side. Probably more than you realize. GD: Now that I know about. High level amorality. They want secrets from us and you give them some of them in return for some of their secrets, doctored of course. That way, both agencies get credit for being clever. RTC: Well, you’ve been in that game so why be so holy over a bunch of dead ragheads? GD: Were all the passengers Indian atomic scientists? RTC: Who cares, Gregory? We got the main man and that was all that mattered. You ought not criticize when you don’t have the whole story. GD: Well, there were too many mountain goats running around, anyway. Then might have gotten their hands on some weapons from Atwood and invaded Switzerland. RTC: You jest but there is truth in what you say. We had such a weight on us, protecting the American people, often from themselves I admit. Many of these stories can never be written, Gregory. And if you try, you had better get your wife to start your car in the morning.
  4. May 10th, 2011 at 07:05 | #4
    Well, it’s excellent, but how about the other options we have here? Would you mind publishing one more article about them too? Thank you!
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