In Mumbai, ITER 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 ITER India (1st from left); Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ITER 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 ITER Council (6th from right).
Accompanied Sriram Kattalai Ramachandran, head of the ITER 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 Larsen & Toubro's design and R&D laboratories. (Larsen & Toubro manufactured the ITER cryostat under contract with ITER India.) The following day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, the ITER Director-General gave a presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, to the staff of ITER India and the Institute for Plasma Research. His brief stay in Ahmedabad was also the occasion to visit the ITER India laboratory hosting the ITER radiofrequency source testing facility.