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US trip of UP CM and 12 others cost more than crore
Neha Shukla,TNN | Feb 13, 2015, 03.58 PM IST
LUCKNOW: An RTI response has revealed that Rs 1.06 crore was spent on UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's trip to US in 2013. Akhilesh had visited US in 2013 long with a 12-member delegation to deliver a talk at an annual symposium of Harvard University.
Though he cancelled his presentation, a day after minister Azam Khan, one of the members in the delegation, was stopped for extended questioning at Boston airport.
Secretariat administration department, UP, in response to Right to Information query to activist Sanjay Sharma has informed that cost of travel and stay for 11 members was borne by state government.
Air travel cost more than Rs 52 lakh and stay cost more than Rs 53 lakh. Total amount spent was Rs 1,06,28,338.
Posted by: urvashi sharma <rtimahilamanchup@yahoo.co.in>
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