Indian PM Spends a Whopping 642 Crore on Travel

Cabinet Ministers:

Almost all the Cabinet Ministers of the UPA Government have successfully contributed its shares of spending from the government’s funds. This accounts to a whopping sum of 300 crore, especially spent from their foreign and domestic travels since the government came into existence.

During the period 2006 to 2009, a sum of around 271 crore was spent on overseas visits and a sum of more than 29 crore was spent on domestic travel by the cabinet ministers. In the data given by the Cabinet Secretariat shows that more than 137 crore was spent by the cabinet ministers on their overseas travels between the year 2006-07 and 2008-09 showing the highest amount (more than Rs 115 crore) in the period 2007-08 spent on such kind of trips. The data provides shocking information about the domestic travels of the ministers of cabinet. It ranks much more than that of the expenditure spent on the abroad trips. More than Rs 163 crore was lavishly thrown away by the cabinet ministers during their tenures.