GOVERNMENT OF INDIA EXTERNAL AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:4446 ANSWERED ON:19.12.2001 PM`S FOREIGN TRIPS PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSI;UTTAMRAO DEORAO PATIL Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state: (a) the number of foreign trips our Prime Minister has undertaken since the inception of 13th Lok Sabha till November 15, 2001 including the date and period of stay etc.; (b) the composition of Media contingent-both print and electronic media-including the names of media personnel, electronics media, crew etc. and the names of the newspapers in each trip; (c) whether the media personnel have been looked after at Government cost or they had to pay their telephone and news transmitting charges like Fax, Telex, E-mail or Internet services; and (d) If so, the details thereof Answer THE MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI JASWAT SINGH) (a): The information is placed at Annexure I (b): The information is placed at Annexure II-IX (c & d): The Government does not provide for the boarding and lodging of the media delegation accompanying the Prime Minister on visits abroad. This expenditure, including any on telephone calls and faxes made from respective hotel rooms, are paid for by the media delegates themselves. To facilitate reporting from places visited, the Government arranges a media center with limited communication facilities especially computers with e-mail. Annexure I The Prime Minister had undertaken 8 (eight) trips abroad since the inception of 13th Lok Sabha till November 15, 2001. The details are as under: S.No. Countries Visited Date 1. South Africa November 11-18, 1999 2. Mauritius March 10-13,2000 3. Italy and Portugal June 25-30, 2000 4. USA and Germany September 7-19, 2000 5. Vietnam and Indonesia January 7-14, 2001 6. Iran April 10-13, 2001 7 Malaysia May 13-16, 2001 8. Russia, USA and UK November 4-13, 2001 Annexure II Accompanying Media on Prime Minister`s visit to South Africa(12-15 November, 1999) 1. Sh. S.Bhattacharjee, Sr. Correspondent, AIR 2. Sh. N. Stanley, Cameraperson, Films Division 3. Sh. F. A. Waris, Sound Recordist, Films Division 3. Ms Gauri Lankesh, Spl. Correspondent, Eenadu TV 4. Sh. Ajit Kumar, Cameraperson, Eenadu TV 5. Sh. Sujit Chatterjee, Dy. Chief of Bureau, PTI 6. Sh. George Verghese, Spl. Correspondent, UNI 7 Sh. Tarun Basu, Executive Editor, IANS 8. Sh. P.J. Baruah, Editor, Assam Tribune 9. Sh. Cahndan Mitra, Editor, Pioneer 10. Sh. Swapan Dasgupta, Dy. Editor, India Today 11. Sh. P. John Churchill, Spl. Correspondent,Doordarshan 12. Sh. Gyan Singh, Cameraman, Doordarshan 13. Sh. Mandeep Singh,Cameraman, Aaj Tak 14. Sh. K. S. Sarath Lal, Bureau Chief, Janambhoomi 15. Ms Saumya Bandhopadhyay, Chief of Bureau, Anand Bazar Patrika 16. Ms Seema Guha, Coord. Editor, Times of India 17. Sh. Harish Khare, Associate Editor, The Hindu 18. Sh. Pranay Sharma, Senior Journalist, Telegraph 19. Sh. Ashwini Minna, Resident Editor, Punjab Kesari 20. Sh. Praful Kumar Sinha, Chief Political Correspondent, Dainik Bhaskar 21. Sh. Hari Sharan Chhabra, Columnist, Africa Publications 22. Sh. Ranjit Bhushan, Bureau Chief, Outlook 23. Ms Jeniffer Arul, Spl. Correspondent, NDTV 24. Sh. M. Srinivasan, Cameraperson, NDTV 25. Sh. Mahesh Shankar, Sr. Photo Officer, Photo Division 26. Sh. Amit Jain, Correspondent, ANI 27. Sh. Akshay Joshi, Cameraman, ANI 28. Sh. V. Narayanan, Correspondent, Sun TV 29. Sh. S. Kannan, Tech. Crew, SUN TV 30. Sh. Jai Prakash Awasthy, Spl. Correspondent, Univarta 31. Sh. Vijay Joshi, Sr. Photographer, PTI Photo 32. Sh. Vijay Maroo, Bureau Chief, Ranchi Express 33. Sh. Mukesh Kantilal Vyas, Res. Editor, Sandesh 34. Sh. Asokan, News Editor, Junior Vikatan 35. Sh. Ajay Chaudhary, Dy. Exec.Producer, Aaj Tak 36. Sh. Vinod Sharma, Dy. Chief of Bureau, Hindustan Times 37. Sh. Kepu Subrahmanya, Chief Correspondent, Deccan Herald 38. Sh. Tarun Vijay, Chief Editor, Panchjanya 39. Sh. Hari Jaisingh, Editor, Tribune 40. Sh. Ajay Upadhyay, Bureau Chief, Dainik Jagran 41. Sh. T.R. Gopalakrishnan,Editor-in-Chief, The Week 42. Sh. Jagdish Ratnani, Correspondent, Zee TV 43. Sh. Pankaj Mehta, Cameraperson, Zee TV 44. Sh. D. Umapathi, Principal Correspondent, Kannada Prabha 45. Jyoti Malhotra, Diplomatic Correspondent, Indian Express 46. Sh. Saeed Naqvi, Chief Editor, World Report Annexure-III Accompanying Media on Prime Minister`s Visit to Mauritius (10-13 March,2000) 1. Sh. Alok Deshwal, Spl. Correspondent, Doordarshan 2. Sh. Nelson John, Cameraman, Doordarshan 3. Sh. R. Khapekar, Cameraman, Films Divn. 4. Sh. A.K. Raina, Spl. Correspondent, All India Radio 5. Sh. V.K. Raina, Spl. Correspondent, All India Radio 6. Sh. Kanchan Dey. Sr. Photo Officer, Photo Divn. 7 Sh. Rajesh Ahuja, Spl Correspondent, ANI 8. Sh. Shailesh Seth, Cameraman, ANI 9. Sh. Ashilesh Sharma, Spl Correspondent, Aaj Tak 10. Sh. S.K. Chowdhary, Cameraman, Aaj Tak 11. Sh. Vasudevan Raja, Spl. Correspondent,Sun TV 12. Sh.Chandrasekaran Velauytham, Cameraman, Sun TV 13. Ms Jayashree Lengade, Spl Correspondent, Eenadu TV 14. Sh. K. Manohar Reddy, Cameraman, Eenadu TV 15. Sh. Rahul Mahajan, Spl. Correspondent, PTI 16. Sh. Atul Moudgil, Cameraman,Zee TV 17. Sh. Sunil Ghatade, Spl. Correspondent, PTI 18. Sh. Partha Sarathi Sengupta, Photographer, PTI Photo 19. Sh. B.B. Nagpal, Spl. Correspondent, UNI 20. Sh. Arun Kesri, Spl. Correspondent, Univarta 21. Sh. Atul Penna, Spl. Correspondent, IANS 22. Sh. Ajay Maroo, Editor, Ranchi Express 23. Sh. Vir Sanghvi, Editor, Hindustan Times 24. Sh. Yashwant Raj, Spl. Correspondent, Times of India 25. Ms. Shobori Ganguly, Spl. Correspondent, Pioneer 26. Ms. Deepal Trevedie, Spl Correspondent, Sambhav 27. Sh. Aloran Mukherjee, Spl. Correspondent, The Hindu 28. Sh. B.S. Arun, Spl. Correspondent, Deccan Herald 29. Ms. Aunohita Mojumdar, Spl. Correspondent, Statesman 30. Sh. R. Rangaraj, Spl. Correspondent, New Indian Express 31. Sh. Prabodh Bardolai, Spl. Correspondent, Dainik Jagran 32. Sh. Vijay Kumar, Editor, Punjab Kesari 33. Sh. R. Manikandan, Asst. Editor, Kumudan 34. Ms. Jyoti Malhotra, Dipl. Correspondent, Indian Express 35. Sh. T.V. Lakshminarayan, Spl. Correspondent, The Tribune 36. Sh. Prashant Mishra, Chief of Bureau, Dainik Jagran 37. Sh. Deeptosh Majumdar, Spl. Correspondent, TheTelegraph 38. Sh. Madhusudan Anand, Chief of Bureau, Navbharat Times 39. Sh. Rajeev Pal, Spl. Correspondent, Rediff 40. Sh. Jayanta Ghoshal, Spl. Correspondent, Bartaman 41. Sh. Sudeep Chakravarti, Sr. Editor, India Today 42. Sh. Kanan Das, Asst. Editor, Samaj 43. Ms Surekha Taksal, Spl. Correspondent, Sakaal 44. Sh. R. Lakshmipati, Executive Editor, Dinamalar 45. Sh. Veer Bahadur Saxena, Chief of Bureau, Rajasthan Patrika 46. Sh. M.P. Krishnadas, Deputy Editor, Mathrubhumi Annexure IV ACCOMPANYING MEDIA ON PRIME MINISTER`S VISIT TO ITALY & PORTUGAL (25-29 JUNE 2000) 1. Sh. Sitanshu Ranjan Kar, Addl. Director, Doordarshan 2. Sh. Bhunesh Kumar, Cameraman, Doordarshan 3. Sh. Rabindra Nath Mishra, Sr. Correspondent, AIR 4. Sh. Radhey Shyam, Chief Cameraman, Films Divn 5. Sh. H.S. Neelakantha, Recordist, Films Divn. 6. Sh. Sukhvir Singh Bhoria, Sr. Photo Officer, Photo Divn. 7 Sh. K. Gundappa Vasuki, Correspondent, ANI 8. Sh. Arun Kapoor, Cameraman, ANI 9. Sh. M. Shakeel Ahmed, Chief News Editor, PTI 10. Sh. V.K. Joshi, Sr. Photographer, PTI Photo 11. Sh. Shibi Alex Chandy, News Editor, IANS 12. Sh. Gurdeip Singh, Spl. Correspondent, UNI 13. Sh. Ravi Chaturvedi, Spl. Correspondent, Univarta 14. Sh. Indu Shekhar Sinha, Coorespondent, ZEE TV 15. Sh. Mathew P. Jacob, Cameraman, ZEE TV 16. Sh. Abhigyan Prakash, Correspondent, NDTV 17. Sh. Ajmal Jami, NDTV 18. Sh. V. Narayanan, Editor-in-Chief, Sun TV 19. Sh. P.M. Rao, Cameraman, Sun TV 20. Sh. N.K. Singh,Spl.Correspondent, Eenadu TV 21. Sh. Rajan Saxena, Cameraman, Eenadu TV 22. Sh. Sanjay Pugalia, Dy. Executive Producer, Aaj Tak 23. Sh. Rajiv Gupta, Sr. Cameraman, Aaj Tak 24. Sh. Aloran Mukherjee, Chief Eco. Correspondent, Hindu 25. Sh. Harish Gupta, Associate Editor, Indian Express 26. Sh. N.M. Kutty, Resident Editor, New Indian Express 27. Sh. B.K. Pandey, Spl. Correspondent, Times of India 28. Sh. K.A. Badrinath, Dy. Chief of Bureau, Hindustan Times 29. Ms Shobori Ganguly, Spl. Correspondent, Pioneer 30. Sh. Aditya Raj Das, Spl. Correspondent, Deccan Herald 31. Sh. Amar Singh Chandel, Dy. Editor, The Tribune 32. Sh. D. Majumdar, Dy. Chief of Bureau, Telegraph 33. Sh. S. Chakrabarti, Resident Editor, Statesman 34. Ms Aditi P. Mehta, Bureau Chief, Business Standard 35. Mr G. Srinivasan, Spl. Correspondent, Business Line 36. Sh. Prashant K. Mishra, Chief of bureau, Dainik Jagran 37. Sh. Mahesh Srivastava, Editor, Dainik Bhaskar, 38. Sh. V.K. Chopra, Editor-in-Chief, Punjab Kesari 39. Sh. Rohit Saran, Associate Editor, India Today 40. Sh. R.C. Batura, Associate Editor, Organiser 41. Sh. B. K. Das, Sub Editor, Samaj 42. Sh. Avijit Ghosal, Spl. Correspondent, ABP 43. Sh. Prabhakar Khole, Editor, Sakaal 44. Sh. Bahubali Shantilal Shah, Editor, Gujarat Samachar 45. Sh. Baby John, Leader Writer, Malayala Manorama 46. Sh. Y. Sivasankar, Associate Editor, Rediff on the Net 47. Sh. Veer Bahadur Saxena, Chief of Bureau, Rajasthan Patrika 48. Sh. A.C. Upadhyay, Editor, Hindustan 49. Sh. Kannan Adityan Managing Editor, Malai Murasu Annexure V Accompanying Media on Prime Minister`s visit to U.S.A. and Germany -(06-17 September, 2000) 1. Shri B.P. Kainthola, Correspondent, Doordarshan 2. Ms. Jayshree, Cameraman, Doordarshan 3. Shri Bejnath Bhagat, Cameraman, Films Division 4. Shri B.P. Gupta, Recordist, Films Division 5. Shri R.C. Saldi, News Editor, All India Radio 6. Shri Sanjiv Mishra, Photographic Officer, Photo Division 7 Shri Satish K. Singh, Chief of Bureau, ZEE TV 8. Shri Surendra Kumar, Cameraperson, ZEE TV 9. Shri M.K. Jha, Correspondent, AAJ TAK 10. Shri Rajdeep Sardesai, Political Editor, NDTV 11. Shri P. Vardarjan, Cameraman, NDTV 12. Shri V.V.P.Sharma, Correspondent, Eenadu 13. Shri Kulbhushan, Cameraman, Eenadu 14. Shri Vasudevan Raja, News Editor, SUN TV 15.