LS-NUCLEAR 3 LST

The bill was approved by the Union cabinet on November 20
last year.

Enactment of the liability law is one of the three key
requirements because of which the Indo-US nuclear deal,
concluded in September 2008 could not be operationalised so
far. The other two requirements are setting up of a dedicated
reprocessing facility under IAEA safeguards and declaration by
India on non-proliferation.
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon had met BJP
leader Arun Jaitley last week to brief him about the bill, but
the main opposition is yet to have all its concerns addressed.
Jaitley is understood to have given a list of queries
regarding the bill to Menon but was yet to get any reply.
According to the provisions in the draft legislation, the
operator would not be liable for any nuclear damage if the
incident was caused by "grave national disaster of exceptional
character", armed conflict or act of terrorism and suffered by
person on account of his own negligence.
The bill also provides for establishment of Nuclear Damage
Claims Commission which will have one or more claims
commissioners for a specified area.
The claims commissioner shall have all powers of a civil
court for the purpose of taking evidence on oath, enforcing
attendance of witnesses, compelling the discovery and
production of documents and other material objects. PTI SKU
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