<P> The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was a strong advocaters of Jatropha cultivation for production of bio-diesel . He said that out of the 6, 00,000 km2 of waste land that is available in India over 3, 00,000 km2 is suitable for Jatropha cultivation . Once the plant is grown, it has a useful lifespan of several decades . During its life Jatropha requires very little water when compared to other cash crops . A plan for supplying incentives to encourage the use of Jatropha has been coloured with green stripes . </P> <P> India boasts a quickly advancing and active nuclear power programme . It is expected to have 20 GW of nuclear capacity by 2020, though they currently stand as the 9th in the world in terms of nuclear capacity . </P> <P> An achilles heel of the Indian nuclear power programme, however, is the fact that they are not signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . This has many times in their history prevented them from obtaining nuclear technology vital to expanding their nuclear industry . Another consequence of this is that much of their programme has been domestically developed, much like their nuclear weapons programme . United States - India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act seems to be a way to get access to advanced nuclear technologies for India . </P> <P> India has been using imported enriched uranium and are under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, but it has developed various aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle to support its reactors . Development of select technologies has been strongly affected by limited imports . Use of heavy water reactors has been particularly attractive for the nation because it allows Uranium to be burnt with little to no enrichment capabilities . India has also done a great amount of work in the development of a Thorium centred fuel cycle . While Uranium deposits in the nation are extremely limited, there are much greater reserves of Thorium and it could provide hundreds of times the energy with the same mass of fuel . The fact that Thorium can theoretically be utilised in heavy water reactors has tied the development of the two . A prototype reactor that would burn Uranium - Plutonium fuel while irradiating a Thorium blanket is under construction at the Madras / Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station . </P>

Main features of energy policy formulated by government of india