Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has said that India’s nuclear programme has made rapid strides in the last two years of the Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Dr Jitendra Singh was interacting with visitors, particularly students, to whom he explained the various glorious facets of India’s nuclear growth.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the concept of setting up “Hall of Nuclear Power” recently at Pragati Maidan was inspired by the realization that the Department of Atomic Energy did not have its headquarters in the national capital and most of its activities were confined to the Western and Southern parts of India, as a result of which, not much was known about the Department in this part of the country.
As for the country’s nuclear programme, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Union Government can clearly take the credit of having brought India’s nuclear programme to North and it is only during the last two years that a nuclear plant was set up North of Delhi, at a place called Gorakhpur in Haryana. Similarly, he said, there are possibilities being explored to set up more nuclear installations in other Northern States including Punjab and Uttarakhand.