Nuclear Bill should be completely scrapped or redrafted: Human rights activists

Nuclear damage bill, which is expected to come up for debate in the monsoon session of Parliament, is being firmly opposed by human rights activists as they are demanding complete redrafting of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010.  

In the public consultation organized by Human Rights Law Network, University of Mumbai and Greenpeace (India), the activists said that the bill in its current form acted as a facilitator of corporate immunity rather than the protector of people’s fundamental rights.  

Two members of Parliament, Ramdas Athavale of Republican Party of India and Eknath Gaikwad of Congress, said there should be suitable amendments made in the bill to take care of the rights of the people of India.  

The nuclear liability bill is currently with the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, which in an advertisement on June 24 had called for wider consultations to include public opinion on the bill.