[Ip-health] Re: [A2k] Will the real Mashelkar stand up?

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.org
Wed Jan 31 14:44:14 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 23:51 +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>       Pillai pointed out that between November 1997 and July 2004, the CS=
IR DG [Mashalkar] undertook 44 foreign visits, during which he received Rs =
61.5 lakh as honorarium, and Rs 68.3 lakh as hospitality. These included 18=
 visits to the UK, six each to South Africa and Switzerland, four to the US=
, and a similar number to Indonesia and Croatia.

fyi, this is the equivalent of about US$150 000 in honorarium payments
and US$170 000 as hospitality. that's a pretty substantial amount of
money, even across 44 trips ($7 000 per trip!).

0rishab