Question : WEALTH OF INDIA PROJECT

(a) whether National Institute of Science Communication (Constituent Establishment of CSIR) is having an ongoing project named Wealth of India;

(b) if so, the year in which this project was initiated;

(c) the number of Scientists engaged in the working of the project during last three years, year-wise;

(d) the number of Scientists transferred from Wealth of India to other projects during the last three years, year-wise with reasons;

(e) whether the Competent Authority has any plan to wind-up Wealth of India project; and

(f) if so, the reasons therefor?

MINISTER FOR HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI)

(a) Yes Sir.

(b) The project was initiated in the year 1942.

(c) & (d) : The details regarding the number of Scientists engaged in the working of the project and transferred to other projects with reasons during the last three years, year-wise is as follows :

Year	Number of Scientists	Number of Scientists	Remarks/Reasons	engaged in the project	transferred from the project 
1998-99	20	Nil
1999-2000	19	Nil	One Scientist retired
2000-2001	18	One	One Scientist redeployed