With the pressure mounting on the Congress led UPA on the CIVIL Nuclear deal, from a lay man point of view why should India become a Nuclear Civil State.

Lets take the primary sources of power generation in the country

- Power generation by Coal (57%)
- Power generation by Hydro (27%)
- Power generation by Wind (5%)
- Power generation by Thermal (5%)
- Power generation by Gas (1%)
- Power generation by Nuclear (5%)

The today’s installed capacity of power generation in India is around 83288 MW. Out of which the Nuclear capacity is 4100 MW (not even 10%).

As you see coal is the major source of power generation in India. Now, apart from this, our government policy is that “All Villages are to be electrified before 2010).

As of 1991, we had around 5 million villages which needed to be electrified. As on date, we have completed around 1 million only.

Census say that our power consumption would triple by 2015 and where is the country’s capacity to generate power and complete the balance electrification of the villages.

The only solution available is to buy a technology which is proven for power generation and that is Nuclear. I am not sure if the deal would become another Enron, but I am sure that the leaders at this point in time are more worried about meeting the demand than pocketting few Rupees.