I recently attended a seminar in my local university by a visiting guest lecturer from India who is chief engineer/designer of the Indian nuclear power program. He start off the lecture talking about Chernobyl disaster and Three Mile Island accident, then he admit India is still in infancy stage of nuclear development, and he complained that there are no "literature" on nuclear reactor design and testing, and thus India was forced to indigenously develop its own control system. The problem he faced is India have little knowledge in Nuclear Reactor design even after so many years of research, and it could not build large complex reactor like the US/USSR/China/EU/Japan/Korea. It was a fact stated by him and that is why India planned to build so many nuclear reactors in recent years because it is forced to build smaller simpler design, out of the fear it just might blow up. (Bigger the reactor, bigger the fallout and disaster)
If you look at the number of reactors each country operate and the number of MW output, you can see India is pretty far behind everyone else. With 16 reactors, it only generate 3557 MW of power. Even Taiwan with 6 reactors generate more than India. Infact if using that as ratio of power output vs number of reactor you can tell how far behind Indian's nuclear technologies is. It is only
SLIGHTLY better than Pakistan's.
(Per reactor output : India's 222.31 MW vs Pakistan's 212.5 MW)
If you compare how many reactor India built to achieve this "amazing" advance of 222.31 MW per reactor compare to how many Pakistan built, it can easily be seen Pakistan is actually advancing faster than India in this area. Even Armenia which built just one reactor outputs more than Indian's average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
So Adux, if I were you, I wouldn't be going off a ego-trip just yet of boasting how India's research program is "best in the world".