Supplier's liability bill impractical.

May be the fault lies in Bhopal gas leak tragedy is wrong decision in setting up a high risk chemical factory in a populated area. Over and above it is clear that in India, there is no proper and effective inspection checks being done to maintain proper health of these factories.

Unless these situation change, any amount of debate and passing of stringent bills on safety and security of such installations will not be of any use. 

Considering that India had learned lessons from Bhopal, let us see the issues concerning the Nuclear power plant supplier's liability proposals.

1. Even in a turn key projects, there will be many OEM components, imported as well as indigenous that are vital to the safe operation of the plant. Even a defective item supplied by a minor ancillary unit can cause a major disaster.

2. Even with high quality, reliable and fail proof components supplied by the suppliers, accidents can still happen due to deficiency in operational procedures and maitenance routines and effective inspections. 

3. Failures can happen due to aging of the components if timely repair and replacements are not done.

4. As the supplier, installer and operator are never going to be of a single entity; it is impossible pin point responsibility.

5. It is possible that many supplier companies may become bankrupt or cease to exist during the life cycle of the plants.  

6. Because of reasons mentioned above, it is impossible to get insurance cover to the required extent of the risk and liabilities involved from the suppliers directly or through the operator, and therefore, every proposal would turn out to be a non-starter.