Foreign Secretary Shivshanker Menon says India will follow its own timeframe to implement the deal, and that the government hopes to conclude negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as soon as possible.
Menon made the comments to reporters Thursday after talks in New Delhi with U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Mario Mancuso.
The remarks come a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Indian officials time is running out on the nuclear deal. The agreement would allow India to receive nuclear fuel and technology from the U.S. in exchange for submitting some of its civilian nuclear plants to United Nations monitoring.India needs approval from the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group before being able to go forward with the deal.
Last week, a delegation of U.S. lawmakers said the agreement must be concluded within the next few weeks in order to win final approval in Congress. Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said if the agreement is not ratified by Congress in July, it likely will be renegotiated by the next U.S. president.
India's communists have opposed the nuclear deal, saying it would undermine the country's independent foreign policy and nuclear weapons program.
Source: By VOA News
Definitely this deal is not
Definitely this deal is not in the interests of india as this will create our dependency over US for Nuclear energy and thwarts our progress in carrying out cut edge thorium research already going.Also it will hamper our deal with iran for a pipeline carrying gas.India has to vote against Iran in Un security council .Building nuclear reactors will cost us very more and all our nuclear reactors come under IAEA safeguards.US will come to know about our nuclear reactors which are civilian or non-civilian.fissionable material cannot be used in non-civilian reators without US consent.Treaty can be abondoned any time by US if it wants.It can demand all the supplies from India also. Nuclear energy only contributes about 5% of indias energy needs and even if we get full nuclear energy from US we can only utilize some % of it because we donot have the material goods to use nuclear energy as we cannot have cars,buses running on nuclear enery,we cannot have full MW electricity generated from nuclear energy as it needs reactor to build and reactors right now are only at some places . we need to build new reactors but that will take time and also it has security aspects related to it.
The only +ve aspects of deal is that in the future we donot have to import any nuclear energy as we already have full reserves of it in INDIA itself.
But intead of this if we will develop our own indigenous technology in India regarding Nuclear energy then it will be great. also we can sell it to other nations(only civilian nuclear energy) and get some profit.