Finance Minister P Chidambaram is leaving for Kazakhstan on May 2 to attend the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Minister would be accompanied by Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram and other finance ministry officials.
Chidambaram, according to sources, is likely to return on May 5. ADB is holding 47th annual meeting in Astana in Kazakhstan.India is a member country of the ADB, which provides soft loans to tackle poverty as well as technical assistance and grants for a range of development activities.