The application of SMRs in India gives many regulatory and technical issues.

Regulatory Challenges:

Lack of Clear Regulatory Framework: Currently India has a nuclear regulatory structure more appropriate for large thermal nuclear power plants. I put specific safety requirements for SMRs only into consideration and outlined their general characteristics, including modularity, comparably small size, and operation in potentially isolated locations.
-Licensing and Permitting: Since SMRs may fall under several regulatory classes, they may take longer to be licensed than bigger plants. Another aspect is that it is crucial to achieve a meeting of minds of demands used today and to simplify the licensing process .
-Liability and Insurance: Potential investors require a strong liability regime for contingent decision making regarding SMRs investments. It encompasses such concerns as: insurance; financial risk management; and conventions.

Technical Challenges:

-Standardization and Certification: For safety, reliability and cost effectiveness designs and certification procedures for SMRs should be standardized.
-Development of Supply Chain: There is a necessity of having integrated and competitive supply chain for components and fuel for SMR. That would involve some good deal of expenditure and cooperation with other bigwigs.
-Grid Integration: Essentially, the inclusion of the SMRs into the current grid structure is also a challenge concerning the stability of the grid, load follow, and cybersecurity.
Public Acceptance: SMR needs public acceptance therefore, it is necessary to establish public trust in the SMR technology. This includes the use of communication and information sharing, and interactions and working with communities.

Local and international organizations along with government agencies need to integrate efforts to manage them.