11-10-2009, 04:30 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Capt M Kumar+Nov 10 2009, 03:35 AM-->QUOTE(Capt M Kumar @ Nov 10 2009, 03:35 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo--> According to the cabinet secretariat, cabinet ministers - 30 in all in the UPA's first term - spent Rs 137 crore on foreign travel between fiscal 2006-07 and 2008-09 with highest in the year 2007-08 when more than Rs 115 crore was spent.
Incidentally, domestic travel too cost the public exchequer a pretty penny with the amount spent totalling Rs 163 crore. The expenditure incurred by them during 2008-09 was Rs 94.4 crore, which was 38% more than the cumulative expenditure incurred on domestic travel in the previous two years.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/U...how/5213054.cms
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how many trips were to Europe specifically Switzerland?
Incidentally, domestic travel too cost the public exchequer a pretty penny with the amount spent totalling Rs 163 crore. The expenditure incurred by them during 2008-09 was Rs 94.4 crore, which was 38% more than the cumulative expenditure incurred on domestic travel in the previous two years.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/U...how/5213054.cms
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how many trips were to Europe specifically Switzerland?