PM Modi's Foreign Trips Between 2015-2025 Cost Exchequer Rs 762 Crore, MEA Filings in Lok Sabha Reveal
New Delhi: Latest filings by the Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) in the Lok Sabha revealed that between 2015 and 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign trips cost Rs 762 crores to the exchequer.
On Friday (February 13, 2026), the MEA gave a written reply detailing the spending of the PM's foreign trips along with other information about accompanying delegations. The reply shows that while the annual expenditure on these foreign trips was over Rs 100 crore in 2024, it crossed Rs 175 crores in 2025, when Modi toured across European nations, Americas, Africa and East Asia.
| Year | Year-wise amount of money spent in PM Modi's foreign trips. (Amount in Rs crores) |
| 2015 | 91.5 cr |
| 2016 | 33.22 cr |
| 2017 | 44.27 cr |
| 2018 | 51.46 cr |
| 2019 | 71.76 cr |
| 2020 | 0 (Covid-19 pandemic) |
| 2021 | 36.11 cr |
| 2022 | 55.82 cr |
| 2023 | 93.63 cr |
| 2024 | 109.51 cr |
| 2025 | 175.19 cr |
The MEA said that the host country bears most of the hospitality costs during the trips, while the government spends mostly on security arrangements, official delegations, media contingent and other logistics. Since May 2014, the size of the PM’s delegation ranged between 27 and 72 depending on the requirements, with one trip that involved visiting five countries in 2025 had 95 members, the ministry’s response said.
Documents also showed that the least the government spent on these trips was during the post-pandemic period but spiked in subsequent years because of bilateral and multilateral engagements.
The MEA’s response also showed that the Manmohan Singh government spent much lesser than these trips – Rs 10.74 crore for the US in 2011, Rs 9.95 crore for Russia in 2013, Rs 8.33 crore for France in 2011 and Rs 6.02 crore for Germany in 2013 - but added that the increase in spending was because of inflation, currency fluctuations, and factors like the number of countries covered, travel distance, security requirements and delegation size.
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