Two of India’s largest state-run energy companies have attracted considerable interest from global reactor vendors in their nascent ventures into nuclear energy, industry officials have told Energy Intelligence. The early interest in nuclear deployment from India's state-run explorer and producer, Oil & Natural Gas Corp., and national power titan NTPC, builds on the government's plans, announced in February, to boost India's nuclear capacity twelvefold— from the current 8.1 gigawatts to 100 GW — by 2047, the centenary of India's independence. India has allocated over 200 billion rupees ($2.3 billion) as a subsidy for indigenous small modular reactor (SMR) research and development, while simultaneously opening up a sector long dominated by Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd. (NPCIL) to other state-owned firms and even the private sector.