(ii) 13th Plenary meeting of COSPAR and International Space Research Symposium held at Leningrad on May 20-29, 1970, which, in addition to the above-mentioned 13 delegates, was attended by Dr. S. Bhagavantam, Chairman, National Committee in India for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and Prof. P. R. Pisharothy of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.

(iii) The 7th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products held at Riga, USSR on June 21-27, 1970, attended by Prof. T. R. Seshadri and Prof. S. Rangaswami, of Delhi University, and Prof. P. C. Butta of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta.

(iv) The IV International Congress of Radiation Research held at Evian, France, from June 28 to July 4, 1970, attended by Prof. H. D. Kumar of the University of Udaipur.

(v) The IBP Technical Meeting on Biological Nitrogen Fixation held in the Netherlands from August 31 to September 4, 1970, attended by Dr. W. V. B. Sundara Rao of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

(vi) International Symposium on the Geology and Genesis of Pre-Cambrian Iron-Manganese Formation and Ore Deposits held at Kiev and Krivoi Rog, USSR on August 20-30, 1970, attended by Shri P. Satyanarayana of University of Saugar.

(vii) The meetings of IMU and IUTAM held at Menton, Nice and Liege from August 28 to September 10, 1970, attended by Prof. P. L. Bhatnagar, Vice- Chancellor, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, and Prof. U. N. Singh of Delhi University.

(viii) The 132nd annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Durham on September 2-9, 1970, attended by Dr. B. P. Pal, and Prof. (Mrs.) Asima Chatterjee, on behalf of the Indian Science Congress Association.

(ix) The General Assembly and Congress of International Union of Biochemistry held in Switzerland on September 3-9, 1970, attended by Dr. P. S. Sarma of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

(x) The Symposium on Hydro Geochemistry held in Tokyo on September 7-15, 1970, attended by Prof. R. C. Sinha, of Patna University and Prof. D. Lal and Miss S. Bhat of TIFR.

(xi) The Joint 'Oceanography Assembly held at- Tokyo on September 13-25, 1970, attended by Dr. U. Aswathanarayana of Saugar University' Dr. N. K. Panikar of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, and Prof. D. Lall and Miss S. Bhat of TIFR.

(xii) The International Symposium on the Ecological Basis for Environmental Management held at Rome from September 28 to October 2, 1970, attended by Dr. B. R. Murty of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

(xiii) The meeting of the Indo-Soviet Joint Committee held at Moscow on October 12-18, 1970, attended by Dr. Atma Ram, Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Prof. T. R. Seshadri, Delhi University, Prof. T. S. Sadasivan, University Botany Laboratory, Madras, Prof. V. S. Huzurbazar, Head of the Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Poona University, and Shri L. S. Chandrakant, Joint Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education & Youth Services.

(xiv) The Seminar on Science Journalism for Asia held at Tokyo on November 3-12, 1970, attended by Dr. B. K. Nayar of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

(xv) The organisational meeting of the Association of Ministers of Science in Asia held at Manila on November 16-20, 1970, attended by Dr. Y. Nayudamma, Director, Central Leather Research Institute, Madras, Dr. R. Ramana of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay and Shri L. S. Chandrakant, Joint Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education & Youth Services.

(xvi) The 26th annual session of the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science held at Colombo on December 15-19, 1970, attended by Prof. (Mrs.) Asima Chatterjee of Indian Science Congress Association.

(xvii) The 13th General Assembly of the International Council of Scientific Unions held at Madrid on September 14-25, 1970, attended by Prof. S. Bhagavantam, Chairman, Indian National Committee for the International

Union of Pure & Applied Physics, and Dr. A. R. Gopala Ayengar, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay.

(xviii) XVII General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences held at Washington on. October 4-9, 1970, attended by Prof. B. R. Seshachar of the Delhi University and Dr. A. R. Gopala Ayengar of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay.

(xix) The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union held at Brighton, Sussex (England) on August 18-27, 1970, attended by Dr. Vainu Bappa, Director, Astrophysical Observatory, Kodaikanal, Dr. G. Swarup and Dr. S. M. Chitre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Dr. M. M. Joshi.

(xx) 7th meeting of International Mineralogical Association held at Tokyo and Kyoto from August 28 to September 2, 1970, attended by Shri K. K. Dar, Dr. G. R. Udas, Shri Y. N. Rama Rao and Dr. M. N. Viswanathia.

(xxi) The XV International Ornithological Congress held in the Hague, the Netherlands, from August 30 to September 5, 1970, and the XV World Conference of International Council of Bird Preservation held in the Netherlands on September 6-11, 1970, attended by, Dr. B. Biswas of the Zoological Survey of India.

5.33. Indian Science Congress: The 58th Session of the Indian Science Congress was held at Bangalore on January 3-9, 1971, under the presidentship of Dr. B. P. Pal. The session was inaugurated by the Governor of Mysore on behalf of Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. It was attended by eminent scientists from 21 countries besides a very large number of Indian scientists. Some foreign scientists, who happened to be in India during the period also attended.

G. FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS

5.34. The financial allocations for the various schemes/ institutions, described in this chapter for 1970-71 and 1971-72 are given in the following table:

        
                                                               (Rs. in 000's)
                                          
        S. No.    Item           Provision      for       Budget
                                           1970-71        Estimate
                                                          for
                                 Original  Revised        1971-72
                                          
        
        1. Survey of India                 60,447    60,178    63,143
        
        2. National Atlas Organisation     1,338     1,160     1,445
        
        3. Anthropological Survey of India 2,291     2,107     2,948
        
        4.   Botanical Survey of India     4,822     4,595     6,091
        
        5.   Zoological Survey of India    3,857     3,534     4,656
        
        6. Grants-in-aid to Scientific Societies
        and Institutes                     9,113     8,587     11,344
        
        7.   National Research Professors
        
          (i) Payment of Salaries          355       212.5     355
        
          (ii) Expenditure on Research Work 118      121.5     124
        
        8. National Research Development
             Corporation of India          1,177     209.5     1,690
        
        9. International Scientific Unions   248     248       478