India, Dec. 15 -- The government's Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025, introduced in Parliament on December 15, seeks to fundamentally recast India's nuclear liability regime, a long-standing barrier to private and foreign investment, as part of a broader push to scale up atomic power in the country's clean energy transition.

At the core of the Bill is a reworked liability framework under Chapter III, which caps the maximum compensation for any single nuclear incident at 300 million Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), with the operator's liability limited to installation-specific ceilings set out in the Second Schedule. Operators will be required to maintain insurance or other financial ...