New Delhi: Initiatives to bring foreign direct investment from the banking sector into nuclear power projects are in the pipeline and will soon go for inter-ministerial consultation, a senior Department of Atomic Energy official said on April 17, 2026.
Seema Jain, Member of Finance at the Department of Atomic Energy, said the Atomic Energy Commission has already approved the FDI policy for the sector. The next step is consultation across ministries.
Speaking at the inaugural session of the Workshop on the SHANTI Act, 2025, Jain said innovative financing measures are needed to create financial space for nuclear power. “Financing we will require all sorts of innovative measures to happen so that kind of money and financial space is made for the sector,” she said.
“For that banking FDI initiatives are also in the pipeline, the Atomic Energy Commission has already approved the policy, and is now going for inter-ministerial consultations,” Jain added. The move aims to open new funding avenues for nuclear power projects in India.
