PM Modi’s Rs 6.56 crore ‘miscellaneous bills’ on his 2024 Kazan journey

Batra advised Newslaundry that because it was taxpayers’ cash, taxpayers have to know the main points. He emphasised the necessity for transparency, stating that taxpayers’ cash should be accounted for.

“It’s unusual that many embassies, which had offered related particulars in response to my RTIs in 2015, are actually denying info that must be within the public area beneath the RTI Act’s proactive disclosure clauses,” he added.

Not one of the different Indian embassies, nonetheless, have responded to his queries — whereas forwarding the queries to the ministry of exterior affairs in New Delhi. In his RTI functions, Commodore Batra had requested for the entire value of every international journey, a breakdown of bills beneath varied heads comparable to lodging, transport and occasions, and whether or not any a part of the visits was sponsored or funded by exterior organisations.

As for Abu Dhabi, the Indian embassy there revealed Rs 4.95 crore was spent on Modi’s go to to the UAE in February 2024, with the expenditure debited beneath the funds head for the ‘council of ministers’.

Full particulars of the RTI replies acquired by the commodore within the pdf under.