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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Prime Minister's air travel expenditure for last nine years stands at Rs. 642 crore

Prime Minister's air travel expenditure for last nine years stands at Rs. 642 crore

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published Published on Jun 9, 2013   modified Modified on Jun 9, 2013
-PTI


A sum of over Rs. 642 crore has been incurred on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's air travels abroad in the last nine years.

This information has been made public by the PMO as part of obligations under the mandatory proactive disclosure clause of the Right to Information Act.

The information reveals that Singh undertook 67 travels since 2004 when he took over as PM, of which bills of five have not been received. The bills received from the rest 62 visits show that Rs. 642.45 crore was spent on air travel.

The Central Information Commission, in a recent order, had directed the Cabinet Secretariat to make public expenses incurred on the travel of ministers and VVIPs because of "large public interest" in the matter.

"We have been noticing a lot of public interest in the visit of such high dignitaries as the President, the Vice President and the Prime Minister of India. Quite often, one comes across RTI applications seeking similar information about these visits," Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Satyananda Mishra had said.

Last year, the information accessed by PTI had revealed that former President Pratibha Patil had spent Rs. 223 crore on her visits abroad during her five years which triggered a debate on expenditure over VIP visits.

The list of the Singh's visits shows maximum expenditure of Rs. 26.94 crore was incurred on his seven-day long visit to Mexico and Brazil in 2012 to attend G20 Summit and Rio+20 Summit respectively.

This was followed by Rs. 22.70 crore spent on air travel to Washington DC, USA and Brazil in 2010 where he had gone to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, BRIC Summit and IBSA Summit.


NDTV, 9 June, 2013, http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/prime-minister-s-air-travel-expenditure-for-last-nine-years-stands-at-rs-642-crore-377159


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