The current global financial crisis could work to India's advantage by throwing up a buyer's market of nuclear power plants, a top government official said here Tuesday.

The current situation may be a blessing in disguise, Shyam Saran, the prime minister's special envoy on the India-US nuclear deal, said.

In his address at a seminar on 'Civil Nuclear Deal: The Indian Opportunity', organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Saran said: There has been