How Much Do PM Modi’s Foreign Trips Cost? PMO Asked to Reveal

PMO website on 13 September 2016 was showing that the bills are under process for payment or have not been received.

The CIC has directed the PMO to produce one representative file related to foreign travels of the Prime Minister after the top office refused an RTI applicant access to these documents citing safety concerns.

Commodore (Retd) Lokesh Batra had sought these details to assess the expenditure incurred on foreign travels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had denied citing sections of the RTI related to security and personal safety.

Chief Information Commissioner Radha Krishna Mathur directed the MEA to peruse the files to ascertain whether there was any security concerns in the records on the basis of which information can be denied.

The Commission observed that without perusal of the file, it cannot be decided that whether the sought for information contains security related information.

Radha Krishna Mathur, Chief Information Commissioner