India to enhance power production through nuclear energy by three folds by 2050: Atomic minerals directorate for exploration and research

Atomic minerals directorate for exploration and research director Dr Anjan Chaki said that India would enhance power production through nuclear energy by three folds by 2050.

Delivering a lecture on fuelling India's power requirements and role of nuclear energy, organized to mark the celebration of 94th foundation day of University of Mysore at Crawford Hall, the director said India has plans to increase nuclear power production by 10 pc in the next four decades.

Presently, installed capacity of nuclear power in India is only 3.2 per cent as against 78 per cent in France and 19 per cent in China. The main source of power generated in our country is thermal and it constitutes 63 per cent of total power production. Our installed capacity of power utilities is over 1.60 lakhs MW, he said and added that India comprises 18 per cent of world's population but produces only 2 per cent of world's electricity.

Chaki felt that to sustain the growth, India has to vastly improve in power sector as well as in infrastructure.