Rs 187 crore spent on PM Modi's foreign visits in 2025, govt tells Rajya Sabha
Government data shared in the Rajya Sabha showed that more than Rs 180 crore was spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits to 23 countries
Government data shared in the Rajya Sabha showed that more than Rs 180 crore was spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits to 23 countries in 2025, including the US, the UK, France, China and Japan. The year-wise data also showed that expenditure on his foreign visits in 2026 so far stood at nearly Rs 74.58 crore. This includes the visit to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand from July 6 to July 11. The details were shared in response to a query by MPs Sanjay Singh and V Sivadasan, who had sought country-wise information on the prime minister's foreign visits since 2021 and the total expenditure incurred on them, year-wise and visit-wise. Read Full Story Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita shared the data in an annexure attached with his written reply. He said, "The details of foreign visits undertaken by the Prime Minister since 2021 and total expenditure incurred on each foreign visit, year-wise and visit-wise are placed at Annexure-I.
For reference purposes, expenditure on Prime Minister's foreign visits earlier was INR 10,74,27,363 (USA, 2011), INR 9,95,76,890 (Russia, 2013), INR 8,33,49,463 (France, 2011) and INR 6,02,23,484 (Germany, 2013). These figures show actual expenditure without adjusting for inflation or currency fluctuations." According to the data, nearly Rs 187 crore was incurred on Modi's visits to various countries in 2025. The expenditure on individual visits last year included France (Rs 25,59,82,902), the US (Rs 16,54,84,302), Saudi Arabia (Rs 15,54,03,792.47), Brazil (Rs 17,72,22,144), China (Rs 10,59,90,561) and the UK (Rs 9,91,55,061.39), among other countries. Other countries visited by Modi in 2025 were Mauritius, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Canada, Croatia, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Namibia, Maldives, Japan, Bhutan, South Africa, Jordan, Oman and Ethiopia. The government had also shared data in July 2025 in another written reply in the Rajya Sabha, which showed that the total expenditure on the prime minister's foreign trips from 2021 to 2024 stood at nearly Rs 295 crore.
The cumulative figures for those four years were about Rs 109 crore in 2024, covering 16 countries including Russia, Ukraine, the US and Brazil; nearly Rs 93 crore in 2023; Rs 55.82 crore in 2022; and about Rs 36 crore in 2021. In 2021, according to the data, Modi visited Bangladesh (Rs 1,00,71,288), the US (Rs 19,63,27,806), Italy (Rs 6,90,49,376) and the UK (Rs 8,57,41,408). The Ministry of External Affairs was also asked for country-wise details of bilateral agreements and Memoranda of Understanding signed during these visits, the investment commitments announced and the actual foreign direct investment received in India as a result. Margherita said, "High-level visits by the Prime Minister are established means of fostering closer relations with foreign countries and promoting India's engagements at bilateral, regional and global levels. These visits, and the understandings and agreements concluded therein facilitate the strengthening of partnerships across a wide range of sectors, including technology, innovation, trade and investment, defence and energy cooperation, and resilient supply chains, among others." In his 35-page reply, Margherita also shared country-wise details of MoUs signed during these visits in a separate annexure and said the "total FDI received during April 2021-December 2025 period was USD 381.8 billion." According to the shared list, 316 MoUs were signed during the prime minister's foreign visits since July 2021.
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