Mr Boucher will hold talks with Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary Gayatri Kumar apart from meeting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, official sources said.
During the talks, the issues related to the deal are expected to be under focus, they said.
The visit comes in the backdrop of the US insistence that key steps like the finalisation of the safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the waiver by Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) to allow India to have civil nuclear cooperation with the international community should be taken early so that the government can put the deal for final voting by May.
Fears
Fears have been expressed by various quarters from the US that if the voting does not take place in May, the deal might not get completed.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is going to make a statement in Parliament on Monday on “foreign policy issues”, which the sources said could be expected to detail the government’s intent on the civil nuclear deal and the progress made including the status of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the safeguards agreement, the key element in the deal.
While the fifth round of negotiations were completed in Vienna, it is not known how much the differences over issues like India’s right to build strategic fuel reserve and acknowledgement of its military nuclear programme by the global atomic watchdog had been overcome.