Although the Indian government wants to promote the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal in terms of power generation, the deal has very little to do with power generation. Nuclear power contributes about 2 percent of the current electricity generations in India. At present, India was producing 3,300 MW. In 2020, the production would be 7,000 MW. According to the Planning Commission and the Prime Minister, the capacity of nuclear power would be 20,000 MW in the year 2020. In order to get there India will buy second-hand reactors from the U.S. to produce 13,000 MW of nuclear power. India will have to spend about Rs. 2 lakh crore for reactors and another Rs. 8 lakh crore to set them up with fuel facilities to achieve that goal. The Indian budget is only Rs. 6.5 lakh crore per year. Thus, India will spend two times more than the country’s annual budget on setting up these vintage reactors only. Even if India were to achieve a 50% increase in nuclear power generation (which is unlikely) such a step would only increase India’s overall electricity output by one percent at most, and would only increase India’s overall energy output by a fraction of one percent. The reason, USA is pushing so hard that India should accept the deal, is, that, this deal is nothing but nuclear non-proliferation treaty in a different name. If MM Singh is a democrat, he should have organized a Referendum or at least a voting in the joint session of the Parliament.
RE:MM Singh is not Democratic; this is the problem
by Dipak Bose on Jun 30, 2008 06:30 PM Permalink
Or leave the post to Pranab Mukherjee ( unless Sitaram Yachury and Pravat Karat once again create trouble as he did in 1996 to stop Jyoti Basu becoming the PM), without whom nothing works in the UPA.
RE:Chance to Antony
by Dipak Bose on Jun 30, 2008 06:32 PM Permalink
leave the post to Pranab Mukherjee , without whom nothing works in the UPA ( unless Sitaram Yachury and Pravat Karat once again create trouble as they did in 1996 to stop Jyoti Basu becoming the PM).
RE:Chance to Antony
by dev singh on Jun 30, 2008 06:49 PM Permalink
How does he qualify for the post? Being the best sycophant for years? Or he is a good foot licker?
RE:Anybody can provide me a Photo of Mr.Manmohan Singh without Sonia in background.
by Jitendra Kumar on Jun 30, 2008 06:24 PM Permalink
India has become realy rich country where we have Lakhpati beggers like you.
RE:Anybody can provide me a Photo of Mr.Manmohan Singh without Sonia in background.
by Balaji on Jun 30, 2008 06:28 PM Permalink
It is not begging. But you can say it as betting. As per the contract act one should offer and the other should accept. There is no way of thinking about begging business.
RE:Anybody can provide me a Photo of Mr.Manmohan Singh without Sonia in background.
by All Right on Jun 30, 2008 06:17 PM Permalink
Give me your address and mobile no. I will mail it to you. Get your cheque ready for Rs 1 lakh
RE:Anybody can provide me a Photo of Mr.Manmohan Singh without Sonia in background.
by Balaji on Jun 30, 2008 06:18 PM Permalink
Dont be angry. After all he is an ABC
RE:Anybody can provide me a Photo of Mr.Manmohan Singh without Sonia in background.
by Dipak Bose on Jun 30, 2008 06:28 PM Permalink
ABC= Another Backward Caste ?????
RE:RE:Should PM RESIGN?
by SSSSS on Jun 30, 2008 06:39 PM Permalink
those days are gone my friend. no no morality. only money... thats all they are there for
RE:Should PM RESIGN?
by All Right on Jun 30, 2008 06:21 PM Permalink
What morality? The BJP in 2003 won Rajasthan by promising Gujjers ST status and then reneged on this. As a result hundreds of Guujjers got shot, crores lost and people inconvenience. Modi directed a state sponsored genocide. This is a short list. Neither of them resigned on grounds of morality.
When Jaya, Maya and Mamta joined, resigned and rejoined NDA - Vajpayeee did not resign. Nor did he resign for permitting Pakistan to invade Kargil
RE:Should PM RESIGN?
by dev singh on Jun 30, 2008 06:54 PM Permalink
When hindus gets killed in Kashmir (not to mention pakistan and bangladesh), it is not genocide?? Are hindus destined to be buthered in their homeland?
Btw, the same people who were affected by so called genocide are voting for Mr. Modi, so time for you mullah to either go to pakistan or start voting for Modi, he can only save u.
We need strong leaders leading our country; we are on verge of more and more progress; development to make sure tempo is not lost we need Strong leaders and pro development party leading our country. Else we will loose many opportunities than what we have achieved so far in past 10-15 years.
Educated and Middle class keep away from Voting; that should be fixed, I am sure we will have best of Goverments and leaders.
RE:We need strong leaders leading our country
by Balaji on Jun 30, 2008 06:13 PM Permalink
Ok. I will talk with kali the great of wwf and inform you on his willingness to lead the country
Dear all, we should all understand what dirty politics the left is into. PM or for that matter the congress cannot take any hasty decisions at this juncture as country is already reeling under inflation related issues. As common people can we afford to have an election at our cost. Mr. PM/Congress is right in their way not to push for early elections. Dont you all feel that BJP and LEFT are trying to take undue advantage of the situation instead of thinking what right or wrong for the development of the country. We all should support PM in his initiative. Hope you agree with me that we have a great man like him as our PM leave apart his constraints
RE:appreciate the patience of this man
by ranjitha bhat on Jun 30, 2008 06:15 PM Permalink
Even donkey has a lot of patience, how is he diffent from a donkey
RE:appreciate the patience of this man
by SSSSS on Jun 30, 2008 06:27 PM Permalink
US wont wait for your "patience". Grow up. They too are getting new Government on-board. Things can change from their side as well.
Totally present government sucks a big time ! Sonia, Manmohan and company proved they are no better than junks... To lead this country we need people with strong family background, and not someone who rose by chance...
RE:appreciate the patience of this man
by bency mohan gopalakrishnan on Jun 30, 2008 06:39 PM Permalink
ManMohan Singh is not a popular politition or a politition with mass support like Nehru,Indira Gandhi,V.P.Singh,A.B.Vajpayee or even DevaGowda.
He is a high class beaurocrat who spend most of his life in comforts of Good jobs & high salary. He become fulltime politition after retairement & never contested a public election.He always come to Parlament through RajyaSabha Nomination.
He become prime minister only because Sonia Gandhi thought that Rahul is not mature enough for becoming prime minister.She know that Manmohan Singh can be trusted than any of her followers,since he did not have the mass support within party or public.
In 1995 ,when Manmohan Singh was finance minister,he sighned GATT & WTO agreements and he was supervisor for globalisation policies in India.Now India facing the results of that policies in form of Inflation,price hike & poverty.
Manmohan singh was famous for his support to USA policies from beginning.He didnot wish to disobey George Bush at any cost.
Congress & BJP are left parties political opponents.Still left parties give support to congress for keeping communal BJP out of power.Last 4 years,left parties give unconditional support eventhough they are not happy with UPA government's functioning. But the N deal is something which is a treat to India's security in future. If Mr.Singh consider it more important to obey George Bush than solving common man's problems like price hike & inflation, let him resign.
Due to immnse trouble from world famous"kadi-master", our own red monkeys, i think this is a good excuse to resign and hold election.Government has failed terribly on all front...insted of solving common peoples problem, all of them are busy in controlling the trouble of red monkeys...
