The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee will embark on a week-long visit to the United States from tomorrow to attend the Annual IMF World Bank meetings. AIR correspondent quoting official sources reports, Mr Mukherjee will lead the Indian delegation that would comprise the Reserve Bank of India Governor, Dr D Subbarao besides senior officials from the finance ministry and the RBI. This will also be the first time that Mr Mukherjee will personally interact with the IMF Managing Director, Ms Christine Lagarde after she assumed charge at the helm of this multilateral lending institution.

At this year’s IMF-World Bank annual meetings, member countries are expected to discuss the critical challenges facing the global economy. Mr Mukherjee will begin his US visit with an address at an investor’s forum organised by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) in New York on September 21. He will also address the India-US CEO Forum at Washington on the 22nd of this month.