Question : MISSING OF SECRET DOCUMENTS FROM BALCO

(a)Whether the designs, drawing and research papers relating to the manufacture of special plates and body covers of fighter aircraft missiles and space shuttle accessories gone missing from the Korba based Bharat Aluminium Company as reported in the Hindustan Times dated October 29, 2006 ;

(b) If so, the facts and the details thereof ;

(c)Whether any inquiry has been conducted in this regard ;

(d) If so, the outcome thereof; and

(e) The steps taken to check the recurrence of such incidents in future ?

THE MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF MINES (SHRI SIS RAM OLA)

(a) :Bharat Aluminium Company Limited(BALCO) has informed that it is in the business of manufacture of primary aluminium in the form of ingots, sheets plates, slabs, billets and for manufacture of these, BALCO has not been provided any designs, drawings and research papers relating to the manufacture of special plates, body covers of fighter aircraft missiles and space shuttle accessories and the report of the same going missing from BALCO, Korba, as published in the Hindustan Times on October 29, 2006 is false.

(b)to(e) : Does not arise.