New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- The Union government will table the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 (SHANTI) in the last week of the Winter Session of Parliament. The bill allows any company or joint ventures to build, own, operate or decommission a nuclear power plant or reactor.

On Friday, the government approved the Bill that seeks to open up the tightly controlled civil nuclear power sector for private participation as India eyes 100 GW atomic energy capacity by 2047.

The SHANTI Bill is billed as a major legislative reform approved by the Union Cabinet and aims at opening India's civil nuclear power sector to private companies for the first time in decades. It represents one of the bi...