However, other commentators, skeptical of the benefits of the agreement, argue that India`s uranium shortage is mainly due to domestic policy reasons, including delays in opening new mines and insufficient support for the expansion of the nuclear program. [74] In this context, the decline of approximately $330 million in the Department of Atomic Energy`s budget in 2008-09 was opposed by some high-level scientists. [75] AEC President Kakodkar rejected concerns that such reductions had also been made for other departments and that they would not have a negative impact on ongoing projects. [76] July 27, 2007: Negotiations for a bilateral agreement between the United States and India will be concluded. Yashwant Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata party, who previously served as India`s foreign minister, criticized the Indian government`s decision to seek NSG consensus and said: “India has entered the U.S.-imposed non-proliferation trap, we have renounced our right to test nuclear weapons forever, it has been abandoned by the government.” [139] Another prominent member of the same party and India`s former national security adviser, Brajesh Mishra, supported the development of the NSG and stated that India`s waiver was “not prohibited” from conducting nuclear tests in the future. [140] (H) “information,” any information that is not publicly available and is transmitted in any form in accordance with this agreement, and is therefore designated and documented by the parties in print or digital form, is subject to the agreement, but is no longer information when the party transmits the information or legally transmits it to the public. (P) “sensitive nuclear facility”: any facility designed or used primarily for uranium enrichment, reprocessing of nuclear fuel or the production of nuclear fuel containing plutonium. By 2015, the agreement had not yet been fully implemented. [19] [20] [21] More than 150 non-proliferation advocates and anti-nuclear organizations have called for strengthening of the original NSG agreement to prevent damage to the current global non-proliferation regime. [149] Among the steps required were:[31] Nevertheless, Manmohan Singh`s government was allowed to go through the various stages of the negotiation process over a period of two and a half years.