In Mumbai, ºÚÁÏרÇø 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 ºÚÁÏרÇø India (1st from left); Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ºÚÁÏרÇø 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 ºÚÁÏרÇø Council (6th from right).
Accompanied Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ºÚÁÏרÇø 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 ºÚÁÏרÇø cryostat under contract with ºÚÁÏרÇø India.) The following day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, the ºÚÁÏרÇø 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 ºÚÁÏרÇø India laboratory hosting the ºÚÁÏרÇø radiofrequency source testing facility.