Ministers' foreign trips: Rs 435 crore due to Air India

December 21, 2011 15:15

As Parliament debates the Lokpal bill, in an irony of sorts, news comes in that Union Cabinet Ministers have accumulated dues of Rs 435 crore on the cash-strapped Air India which is 93 per cent of the the total bills incurred by
them during their visits abroad

Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy said during 2009-10 Cabinet Ministers incurred bills of Rs 61.10 crore on foreign travel while ministers of state spent Rs 3.78 crore.

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