Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited 58 countries since 2015 and a total expenditure of Rs 517 crore was incurred on them, the government said on Tuesday.
Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan provided details of the prime minister’s visits abroad since 2015, including their outcome, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. “The total expenditure on these visits was Rs 517.82 crore,” he said.
The reply stated that the Prime Minister’s visits abroad have “enhanced understanding of India’s perspectives on bilateral, regional and global issues by other countries, and have strengthened our relations with them across a wide range of sectors including trade and investment, technology, maritime, space, defence collaboration and people to people contact. These in turn have contributed to India’s national development agenda to promote economic growth and well being of our people.”
Prime Minister Modi’s last trip was to Brazil in November 2019, where he attended the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit. While other visits that PM Modi took were multi-nation trips.
PM Modi made no visits in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
