India is hopeful of getting more than $100 billion worth of foreign investment in the nuclear power sector in the next two decades and a quarter of it would come from France, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.
“In the coming two decades, India will see investments in excess of $100 billion in the nuclear power sector alone and I am sure that at least a quarter of these will come from France,” Sharma said, addressing the fourth India-France CEOs Forum here Monday.
The forum, comprising heads of leading businesses in France and India, was initiated by president Nicolas Sarkozy and prime ministerManmohan Singh in 2008 following Sarkozy’s state visit to India, signifying the growing bilateral commercial ties.
