Indian PM Spends a Whopping 642 Crore on Travel

Ministers of state:

The ministers of state of the central government of India are also among those who enjoy all the benefits a minister of a country should get which are much more than it is endowed to be.

Since  two years from its government formation in May 2009, the ministers are found to have at least 750 visits abroad. Of all these trips, the media are just aware of the only 260 trips which amount to over Rs 12 crore. In the year 2006 to 2009, the ministers of state had a travelling expenditure to foreign countries that are more that Rs 20 crore. An amount of more than 27 crore was used up just for travels expenses of the ministers of state for a trip within the country in the period 2006-07 to 2008-09.  It was in the year 2010, the Union government put up an austerity measure to check foreign trips by the ministers of state.