Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been visiting several foreign countries recently for building better relations or other reasons and the most recent one, a three-day trip to Canada, was also to create bonding between the two countries. However, these visits, planned for the maximum comfort, also cost a lot. The Canada trip alone cost the taxpayers more than $373,000, about $17,600 of which was spent on beverages, $106,400 on a motorcade, and $80,000 on receptions.
Aside from those, the costs included $73,213 on public servants’ travel, $1,584 on gifts, $3,656,54 on flowers and wreaths, $14,790 on health services, $10,448 on hotel rooms, $5,981 on interpreters and translation, $30,000 on audio visual equipment, $21,708 on unspecified consultants, $75 for a flag, and an arena costing $600,000. The details about these prices were revealed under the Access to Information Act and excluded the security costs.
According to sources, there has been a lot of disagreement to this type of lavish behaviour with rumours stating that some of the travel and security costs paid by taxpayers should be paid back.
