Chandigarh, March 5 -- Even though the top bureaucrats of the UT administration-chief secretary Rajeev Verma and home secretary Mandip Singh Brar-along with two other officials, Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) managing director Hari Kallikat, director of tourism Pradhuman Singh, and a tourism department employee, Hitesh Kumar, have gone to Berlin, Germany, to attend the three-day World Travel Trade Expo from March 4 to 6. Past records suggest that such visits have not yielded any significant results.

The officers departed from Chandigarh on March 2 and are scheduled to return on March 9, resuming office on March 10. The total cost of the trip has been borne by the Union ministry of tourism.

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