In a move which could embarrass the Uttar Pradesh government, state Transport minister Durga Prasad Yadav has embarked on a week-long study tour to Brazil with family in tow.

The minister left for the tour, meant for studying the transport system in Brazil with focus on infrastructure and IT, with the intention of adopting the best practices in UP, on Saturday with his son, daughter-in-law, private secretary and few other officials and wife of one of the officials, a transport department official said.

The tour sponsored by the Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU), a body with country's all state road transport corporations as its members, was originally meant for just three persons (from UP State Road Transport Corporation) but somehow the numbers were raised and VIPs were included in the list, he said.