TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ An expenditure of over Rs 2,021 crore was incurred on chartered flights, maintenance of aircraft and hotline facilities during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to foreign countries since June 2014, according to the government.
Replying to queries on the issue in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh also listed the countries visited by the prime minister between 2014 and 2018 that now figure among the top 10 countries from where India has received the maximum foreign direct investment inflows. The FDIs grew from $30,930.5 million in 2014, to $43478.27 million in 2017, the minister said.
According to the data provided by the minister, an expenditure of over Rs 1,346 crore was incurred on chartered flights, maintenance of aircraft and hotline facilities during Manmohan Singh’s foreign visits from 2009-10 till 2013-14 during United Progressive Alliance-II. The details were shared by Singh in reply to questions on official foreign tours of Manmohan Singh during his second term as prime minister from 2009 to 2014 and of Modi since 2014.
According
to the data, a total of Rs 1,583.18 crore was spent on maintenance of the prime
minister’s aircraft and Rs 429.25 crore on chartered flights during the period
between June 15, 2014 and December 3, 2018. The total expenditure on hotline
was Rs 9.11 crore.
