Respectively, additional private secretary (policy & research) and assistant consultant, EAC-PM
Western activism tends to push agenda that don’t find buyers in the home countries to the much less-developed Global South. This activism conveniently portrays something that is cutting edge, as a global pariah. Nuclear energy is a case in point. Our country has had a history of nuclear projects being stalled due to protests, which are often funded by the West. It is worth quoting from a 2012 interview in Science with then PM of India, Manmohan Singh. “The atomic energy program has got into difficulties because these NGOs (the ones in the developed world), mostly, I think, based in the US, don’t appreciate the need for our country to increase energy. The local NGO-led protests have stalled the commissioning of two 1000 MW nuclear reactors”.
