New Delhi: This is staggering. A whopping Rs 300 crore has
been spent between 2006 and 2009 as travelling expenses
of the cabinet ministers in the previous UPA government.
In a reply to an RTI query by activist Subhash Chandra
Agarwal, the statistics reveal such mammoth figures even
at a time when the country was going through economic
slowdown.
The reports from the cabinet secretariat clearly reveal the
fact that 30 cabinet ministers in the UPA's first term have
spent Rs 137 crore on travelling to foreign destinations
between fiscal 2006-07 and 2008-09.
Even the domestic travel expenses amounted to Rs 163 crore.
The statistics further reveal that expenditure incurred by the
Cabinet ministers during 2008-09 was around Rs 95 crore.
According to J L Khurana, senior accounts officer at the
ministry of personnel, public grievances and pension,
UPA ministers the office does not have any record of how
much an individual minister has spent since all the expenditure
is recorded under one respective account of all the ministers.
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