GOVERNMENT OF INDIA FINANCE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:349 ANSWERED ON:25.02.2000 FOREIGN TOURS BALIRAM Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state: (a) whether attention of the Government has been drawn towards some cases of foreign tours undertaken by the officers of the State Governments of Delhi and U.P. without obtaining the necessary permission from the Union Government; (b) if so, the details of each such case detected during the last three years; and (c) the action taken by the Government for this violation of existing rules ? Answer MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI V. DHANANJAYA KUMAR) (a), (b) and (c): The information is being collected from the concerned State Governments and will be laid on the Table of the House. LIST/INFORMATION OF THOSE OFFICERS WHO UNDERTOOK FOREIGN TOURS WITHOUT OBTAINING NECESSARY PERMISSION FROM GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS) IN REFERENCE TO THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 349 OF DR. BALIRAM. Year: 1999-2000 - Sl.No. Name of Purpose of Name of Remarks Department/ Foreign Country Official with Tour/Period Designation - 1. Shri GD To attend British UK The case has been Badgaiyan,then Chevening Gurukul referred to the Secy.to CM, Delhi Scholarship at Department of London School of Personnel and Trg. Economics and by Delhi Govt. Political Science, UK for taking LIST/ INFORMATION OF THOSE OFFICERS WHO UNDERTOOK FOREIGN TOURS WITHOUT OBTAINING NECESSARY PERMISSION FROM GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS) IN REFERENCE TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 349 OF DR. BALIRAM. 1997-98. Sl. Name of Deptt/ Purpose of Foreign Name of Country Remarks No. Official with Tour/ Period Designation 1. Appointment Department Sarvasri. 1.Shankar Agarwal, Negotiation-Regarding Japan Former Secy, supply Electrical Energy. Equipment/ 12-19.1.1997. 2.Rajeev Kumar, Participating in DOMET Germany Former MD, UP TAX Fair./ 11-14.1.1997. Export Corp. 3.AP Verma,Former Participating Inter- Netherlands Secy,Labour Deptt. national Round Table Conference./ 25-28.2.1997. 4.Smt.Sunanda Prasad, Participating India Nepal Former Comm.& Dir. Trade fair,1997/ Industries Deptt. 14-21.3.1997. 5.DS Bens,Former - do Secy, SSI. 6.SK Nigam,Addl. - do Industries. 7.Dr.SP Singh,Former To inspect Behreen Behrain SS (Energy Deptt) and Anapara Trans- mission Equipment/ 3-7.3.1997. 8.Ravi Mathur,Former Made in India Show/ UK CEO, NOIDA. 10-13.7.1997. 9.Lalit Srivastava, do Former,MD,UPSIDC. 10.DS Bens,Former,MD, 6-13.7.1997. do UPSIDC. 11.Rakesh Garg,Former - do Secy,Ind. Devp. Deptt. & Dir, Udyog Bandhu. 12.Noor Mohd.,Secy, - - - Election. 13.Prem Narain,Former To Formulate a Australia. Secy, Energy. Project/ 3.5.1997 to 8.6.1997. 14.Ganga Deen,Former do Director, NEDA. 15.VK Mittal,Former Negotiation with USA. Prl.Secy,Finance. World Bank/ 28.9.97 to 3.10.97. 16.DS Bens, Former Participating Japan. MD, PICUP. In Investment Fair/ 27-30.5.97. 17.Lalit Srivastava, Participating in Japan. Former MD,UPSIDC. Vth Overseas Investment Fair/ 27-30.5.97. 18.Manoj Kumar,VC Negotiation regar- Netherlands. Alid.Dev.Auth. ding Rishilok Pariyojana/ 27-30.5.97. 19.VM Meena,Former Purchaser & Seller Japan. MD, UOIDC. Conference/ 3-8.6.97. 20.SP Singh,Former Meeting regarding Canada. SS(Energy Deptt.) supply of equipment For Anapara Unnao Transmission Project/ 15-21.6.97. 21.PC Chaturvedi, Study- RMOTE CENCING Canada/USA Former Secy, & GEOGRAPHIC INFOR- Sc & Tech.Deptt. MATION SYSTEMS/ 28.6.97 to 14.7.97. 22.SR Lakha,Former Study Tour/ Australia. Cane Commissioner 27.8.97 to 6.9.97. 23.Gajendra Pal,Former do Secy,Sugar Ind. 24.Sohan Lal,Former do Director,Ganna Kissan Sansthan. 25.Durga Shankar Misra, Study Tour/ Indonesia. Former,DM,Agra. 20-29.9.97. 26.Ganga Deen Yadav, 4 days Workshop/ Austria. Former Dir,NEDA 9-12.9.97. 27.JN Chamber,Former - 1-7.9.97. Oman. Secy, SSI. 28.Alok Ranjan,Former Negotiation with USA. Secy,Finance World Bank for Edn.Programme/ 8-23.9.97. 29.Govindan Nayar, Education for all/ USA. Former P.D. 8-23.9.97. 30.AP Singh,Former APC Project Study/ South Africa. 8-12.9.97. 31.R.Chandra, Former do Secy, RD 32.NC Sharma,Former Addl. do - Dir.,Swaraj Project. 33.RS Tolia,Dir,ATI NTL Participate in ICI Nepal. MOD`s Meeting/ 19-20.1.98. 34.Rakesh Sharma,Addl. Regional Workshop Nepal. Dir., ATI NTL. on RODEN of Locum Institution in Community Forestry/- 35.Smt.Sunita Kandpal, Regarding Bridge Japan. Former Chairman & Const./ Executive Officer, OIDA. 19-21.1.98. 36.Ravindra Gupta,Former - do - Prl.Secy, IDD. 37.Anurag Goel,Former Negotiation with USA, Canada & Secy, CM Holand`s Specialists Netherlands. Regarding Modern Working System in Admn./ 8-12.2.98. 2. Intelligence Department. 38.Raghvendra Singh, Law & Order Angola. Inspector. Trg./Jul,97 to Jul,98. 3. Medical Health & FW Department. 39.Dr.Shahsi Diwan For Higher Study/ 18.5.98 to 19.6.98. 40.Dr.RP Mathur. do 41.Dr.PK Mathur. do 42.Dr.Sharda Chandra. do - 43.Dr.KK Misra, CMO, Rampur. 2-16.12.98. 44.Dr.SS Misra,Dir.,SWP,Lko. do - 45.Dr.AK Dwivedi,CMO,Varanasi. do - 46.Dr.SM Singh,Lecturer, Participating in a Malaysia. RNH Med.Coll., Conference/ Allahabad. 9-19.9.98. 4. Civil Aviation. 47.Shashank S.Singh, Trg.Programme reg. USA. Former Prl.Secy, Bonanja A-36/ 14.4.97 Civil Aviation. to 21.7.97. 48.Raj Pratap Singh, Negotiation with USA. Former Spl.Secy, Proprietor of Civil Aviation. Company for Purchasing BEL 420 Copter/ 5-10.8.97. 49.DK Misra, CE, do - Civil Aviation. 5. Technical Edn.Department. 50.Shamim Ahmad,Lecturer, Foreign Trg./ Canada. NRIVT, Allahabad. Aug.97 to 3 months. 51.DK Verma. do - 52.Hari Om Verma,Chairman/ do Australia. Principal,Government Poly., Hardoi. 53.DS Kushwaha,Lecturer, - do Australia. SJ Ply.Khurja, Mar.98 to 10 weeks. Bulandshahar. 54.Ashraf Ali,Lecturer, do - Research Dev.Trg. Institute, Kanpur. 6. Transport Department. 55.Dr.Vikram Singh,ARTO. Participation in Hindi England. Seminar & Kavi sammelan/ 30.8.97 to 14.9.97. 7. Environment Department. 56.SR Sachan,Env.Eng. Foreign Trg./ Australia. Year 1997. 57.CS Bhatt,Member Secy. do -/Year 1998 USA. 58.Jai Singh Yadav,Env.Eng. - do - Japan. 59.AK Singhal,Asstt.Env.Eng. do UK. 60.TU Khan,Env. Offr. - do - 61.Dr.Madhu Bhardwaj,Chief EO. do - 8. Science & Technology Department. 62.Prof.Ram sagar, Dir. ANTARRASTRIYA SHAHYO- GATMAK KARYA/ 8 days. 63.Dr.Bahauddin,Observer. do 6 days. Netherlands 9. Horticulture Department. 64.Smt.SK Sandhu, Participate in Water Singapore & Former Secy. Seller Meet Progm./ Thailand. 2-6.7.97. 65.AK Srivastava,AM,UPHMF. do 10. Excise Department. 66.Dr.UK Misra, Nominated as Manager Hungary. JC,Excise. Indian Jimnastic Team./ 3-9.12.97. 11. Housing Department. 67.Atul Kumar Gupta,Secy. Indo-Dutch Asstt.Project/ Netherlands. 10-15.6.97. 12. Additional Energy Resource Department. 68.Prem Narayan,Former Study tour/ USA. Secy,Energy. 69.Ganga Deen yadav,Former For attending Seminar/ Austria. Dir., NEDA 13. Small scale Industries Department. 70.JN Chamber,Former Secy. For attending Inter- Oman. National Fair/- 71.SK Goswami,Sr.Mngr,SSI. Ornament Exhibition/ Oman 5-10.3.98. 14. Agriculture Department. 72.Manvendra Singh, Trg. in Technical Dev. Netherlands/ Agr.Dir,UP Seed Agr. Sector/ 5-10.3.98. Germany. Corp.Udhamsingh Ngr. 73.Rajendra Pal Singh, do 74.Suresh Kumar Sharma,- do - 75.Shiv Singh Gurjar, do 76.Dhirendra Verma, do 77.Manjeet Singh Virk, do 78.RK Ahuja,Reg.Market.Offr. do 79.KK Bhatia,MD For attending UPSA Australia. Conference/ 22-27.9.97. 80.Dan Singh Rawat do 81. SS Varathoki, Technical Study in do Drawing-cum-Packing Unit. /29.9.97 to 3.10.97 82. OP Arora,Seed Prod.Off. do 15. Sugar Industries & Cane Dev. Deptt. 83. SR Lakha,Cane Commsr. Study Tour/27.8.97-6.9.97 Australia 84. Sohan Lal, Director Study Tour/27.8.97-6.9.97 Australia Ganna Kisan Sansthan 85.Gajendra Pal,Spl.Secy For attending Seminar/do do 86.RP Vishwakarma,MD,Fed. do /1-27.6.97 UK 16. Tourism Department 87.Ravindra Singh, M.D. Training for Tourism USA, Canada, Deptt./20.6.97-5.7.97 Germany,England 88.SS Singh, Chairman do /21-30.6.97 do 89.RP Singh, Spl. Secy. For representation Chicago (USA) in Travel Technology Conference/15-26.7.97 90.AC Sharma, Chief Foreign Tour with London (UK) Relation Officer Minister/16-23.11.97 91.DK Kotiya,Secy.to CM do -/ do do 92.Ravindra Singh, MD I.T.V. Berlin/5-15.3.98 Berlin(Germany) 93.Anoop Kumar Srivastava, do /2-11.3.98 do Regional Tourist Officer LIST / INFORMATION OF THOSE OFFICIALS WHO UNDERTOOK FOREIGN TOURS WITHOUT OBTAINING NECESSARY PERMISSION FROM GOVT.OF INDIA,MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS) IN REFERENCE TO LOKSABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.349 OF DR. BALI RAM. Year 1998-99 Sl. Name of Deptt./ Purpose of Foreign Name of Remarks No. Official with Tour/Period Country Designation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Secretariat Administration Department 1. Smt. Manjulika For attending World Washington(USA) Gautam,Pr.Secy. Bank Meeting/21-28.5.98 2. Home Department 2.RR Shah, Former For study of security USA Pr. Secy. related systems/23-31.5.98 3. Appointment Department 3. Anand Misra, Regarding negotiation Washington (USA) Former Secy., with World Bank/ Finance 13-17.4.98 4.Smt.Manjulika Negotiation regarding do Gautam, Former projects/22-25.5.98 Pr.Secy.,Mahila Evam Bal Kalyan.