New Delhi, March 6 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the government's decision to open up the nuclear power sector to the private sector has opened up the way for scaling up nuclear power capacity in a big way over the next two decades.

Speaking at the 'Republic plenary summit' organised by Republic TV, the prime minister said that the bold decision of opening up the space sector for young entrepreneurs has led to creation of more than 250 space start-ups in the country. Modi also said geospatial mapping related data is now aiding creation of new start-ups.

Earlier, nuclear energy was kept under government control and now the government has in this year's budget announced the opening up of this sector to the private ...