From May to July, Prime Minister Modi is expected to visit Sri Lanka, Israel, Russia, Germany, Spain and Kazakhstan.
New Delhi, May 10: In his nearly three-year tenure as the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has been on foreign trips 27 times and has visited 44 countries so far. From his first trip to Bhutan on June 15, 2014, to his last foreign trip till date to Japan on November 10, 2016, the expenses incurred on chartered flights amounts to Rs 274,88,64,465, according to the data available on pmindia.gov.in.
The costliest travel was a nine-day trip to France, Germany and Canada amounting to Rs 31,25,78,000 in April 2015 and the cheapest one was to Bhutan with expense incurred on chartered flight worth Rs 2,45,27,465, the data revealed. There are certain destination where Indian Air Force BBJ aircraft was used and the expense is not mentioned.
The expenses on foreign tours of the Prime Minister are met out of the budget head "Cabinet Ministers Maintenance of PM's aircraft Other charges under Demand No. 47. The expense mentioned is the one incurred on the chartered flight.
There are several destinations such as the USA, Japan, Nepal, China where Modi visited at least twice.
While the Prime Minister has been travelling on an ageing Boeing 747 so far, Air India One's aircraft will be upgraded to a state-of-the art Boeing 777-300, the India Today reported.
The bill of Modi's last foreign travel to Japan in November 2016, two days after demonetisation was announced, is still not received.
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