New Delhi: NTPC, India’s largest power generation company, has constituted a team of officers and training them for company’s ambitious step to set up nuclear projects across the country.
The New Delhi based government company has also formed a separate department named Nuclear Engineering Cell based in Mumbai.
The company is sending its officials abroad to study aspects of nuclear projects.
Recently, NTPC entered the nuclear sector in joint venture with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). However, the company is also working on separate plan to set up nuclear projects of its own through subsidiary Parmanu Urja Nigam.
NTPC aims to have a major share in Indian government’s 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047.
Apart from NTPC, private players Naveen Jindal Group and Tata Power are also working on plans to set up nuclear projects in India.
However, as per experts, nuclear will pick-up pace in coming 3-5 years as industry is waiting for necessary regulations to passed in the upcoming winter session of the Parliament.
