In Mumbai, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Director-General Pietro Barabaschi, centre, met with Ajit Kumar Mohanty, the Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission (6th from left). Also present in the photo are: Ujjwal Kumar Baruah, head of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ India (1st from left); Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Office of the Director-General (4th from left) and Ravi B. Grover, professor emeritus, Homi Bhabha National Institute and head of the Indian delegation to the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council (6th from right).
Accompanied Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Office of the Director-General, Mr Barabaschi started off his visit in Mumbai by meeting with the Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India Ajit Kumar Mohanty, followed by a visit to 's design and R&D laboratories. (Larsen & Toubro manufactured the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ cryostat under contract with ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ India.) The following day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Director-General gave a presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, to the staff of and the . His brief stay in Ahmedabad was also the occasion to visit the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ India laboratory hosting the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ radiofrequency source testing facility.