Question : FOREIGN TOURS

(a) the names of the officers of his Ministry or the various departments/undertakings/other organisations under his Ministry who visited foreign countries during the last three years, the names of the foreign countries visited by them and the respective periods of their stay over there;

(b) the amount of foreign exchange given to them by the Government in cash or in the form of `travellers cheque`;

(c) the details of the travellers cheques which have not been produced for encashment;

(d) the reasons, if any, for misuse of Government funds by these officers alongwith the reasons for failure in recovering the funds from them; and

(e) the steps taken by the Government to recover the misappropriated funds and the time by which this is likely to be done?

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING, MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION, MINISTER OF STATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPACE (SHRI S.B. MOOKHERJEE):

(a) The Department of Atomic Energy has significant scientific collaboration with several countries and multilateral organizations. As part of the regular collaboration, exchange of visits and participation in scientific/ technical meetings take place. In addition, officials from DAE Secretariat also visit foreign countries on departmental expenditure for participation in relevant meetings, a list of such visits for the last 3 years is enclosed herewith.

(b) The amount of foreign exchange paid in each case is indicated in the list enclosed.

(c) The Department has not come across any such instance.

(d) & (e) Do not arise.


INFORMATION RELATING TO FOREIGN VISIT UNDERTAKEN FOR THE YEAR 2000

S.No	Name of the Officer	Country visited	Period of visit	Amount of foreign	exchange paid towards	Cash allowance/	Accommodation
1.	Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairman, AEC	Switzerland, Austria	January 23 - 28, 2000	US $ 600 (Cash allow.)	and Secretary, DAE	and France
2.	Smt. Sudha Bhave, Joint	Geneva, Switzerland.	April 13 to 19, 2000	US $ 911 (C.A/Accommod.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE

3.	Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairman,AEC	Austria, France & UK.	June 4 to 10, 2000	US $ 670 (Cash allow.)	and Secretary, DAE

4.	Shri R.M. Premkumar, Additional	Republic of Korea	June 27 - July 1,2000	US $ 500 (Cash allow.)	Secretary, DAE

5.	Shri R.M. Premkumar,Additional	Moscow, Russia	August 23 to 25,2000	US $ 225 (Cash allow.)	Secretary, DAE
6.	Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairman,	Russia, Austria	September 13 - 26,2000	US $ 1295 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE	and Switzerland.
7.	Smt. Sudha Bhave, Joint	Geneva, Switzerland.	September 24 - 28,2000	US $ 624 (C.A./Accommod.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE

8.	Ms. Suchitra Durai, Deputy	Austria & Switzerland.	September 16 - 26,2000	US $ 800 (Cash allow.)	Secretary (ER), DAE

9.	Shri R.M. Premkumar,Additional	Moscow, Russia.	November 2 to 4,2000	US $ 168.75 (Cash allow.)	Secretary, DAE
INFORMATION RELATING TO FOREIGN VISIT UNDERTAKEN FOR THE YEAR 2001
S.No	Name of the Officer	Country visited	Period of visit	Amount of Foreign	Exchange paid towards	Cash allowance/	Accommodation
1.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vietnam	January 6 to 10, 2001	US $ 225 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE

2.	Shri R.M. Premkumar,Additional	Moscow, Russia	January 16 to 21, 2001	US $ 337.50 (Cash allow.)	Secretary, DAE

3.	Smt. Sudha Bhave, Joint	Geneva, Switzerland.	April 19 to 25, 2001.	US $ 525 (Cash allow.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE

4.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Russia, Austria	June 25 to 30, 2001	US $ 412.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE	and France

5.	Ms. Suchitra Durai, Deputy	Austria	June 10 to 17, 2001.	US $ 600 (Cash allow.)	Secretary (ER), DAE
6.	Ms. Suchitra Durai, Deputy	Vienna, Austria.	September 9 to 21,2001	US $ 975 (Cash allow.)	Secretary (ER), DAE

7	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vienna, Austria and	September 15-23, 2001	US $ 652.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE	Geneva, Switzerland

8.	Smt. Sudha Bhave,Joint	Geneva, Switzerland	September 25-27, 2001.	US $ 321 (C.A./Accommod.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE

9.	Smt. Sudha Bhave,Joint	Geneva, Switzerland	October 20 to 25, 2001	US $ 587.50 (C.A./Accommod)	Secretary (R&D), DAE
10.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Moscow, Russia	October 22 to 23, 2001	US $ 112.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE
11.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Moscow, Russia and	November 5 to 9, 2001	US $ 337.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE	Vienna, Austria
INFORMATION RELATING TO FOREIGN VISIT UNDERTAKEN FOR THE YEAR 2002 
S.No	Name of the Officer	Country visited	Period of visit	Amount of Foreign	Exchange paid towards	Cash allowance/	Accommodation
1.	Dr. K. Raghuraman, Head, ISD, DAE	Dalat, Vietnam	January 10, 2002	US $ 90 (Cash allow.)
2.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	USA	February 13 - 16,2002	US $ 300 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE

3.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vienna, Austria	March 5 to 8, 2002.	US $ 352.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE

4.	Smt. Sudha Bhave,Joint	Geneva, Switzerland	April 21 to 26, 2002	US $ 636 (C.A./Accommod.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE

5.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vienna, Austria	June 17 to 19, 2002	US $ 262.50 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE
6.	Shri R.M. Premkumar,	Kazakhastan	June 23 to 27, 2002	US $ 281.25 (Cash allow.)	Additional Secretary, DAE

7	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vienna, Austria	June 26 to 28, 2002	US $ 300 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE

8.	Shri A.B. Awati, SO/F,DAE	Washington, USA	August 24 to 30, 2002	US $ 450 (Cash allow.)
9.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Germany and UK	September 3-6, 2002	US $ 300 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE
10.	Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman,	Vienna, Austria	September 14-21, 2002	US $ 525 (Cash allow.)	AEC and Secretary, DAE
11.	Dr. K. Raghuraman,Head, ISD, DAE	Vienna, Austria	September 14-22, 2002	US $ 487.50 (Cash allow.)
12.	Smt. Sudha Bhave,Joint	Geneva, Switzerland	September 23-26, 2002	US $ 315.35 (C.A./Accommod)	Secretary (R&D), DAE
13.	Smt. Sudha Bhave,Joint	Geneva, Switzerland	October 19 to 26, 2002	US $ 770 (C.A./Accommod.)	Secretary (R&D), DAE