It's not just the media contingent that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has avoided on his foreign tours. Modi has been keeping his own delegation thin as well, dropping officials and ministerial colleagues from the trips.
A delegation of 42 accompanied Modi to Nepal on August 3-4, according to information available with ET. The team comprised top officials, personal secretaries, attendants and security officials. The delegation for his four-day visit to Japan beginning Augu ..
beginning August 31 is also expected to be of similar size, but is likely to include a minister as key deals are expected to be signed during that visit, government sources told ET.
Modi's predecessor, Manmohan Singh, often carried teams that had about 70 members, excluding the media party, on trips that were for two days. "The trimmer delegation is in keeping with the PM's direction for cutting costs given the condition of the Indian economy," an official well versed with the mater said.
Singh, on his last trip as PM to Myanmar for the BIMSTEC Summit on March 3-4, took an official delegation and accompanying delegations comprising several officials from the Prime Minister's Office, secretaries, spokesperson, Press Information Bureau officers and a host of private secretaries, personal physicians and two cooks, government source said. Singh who had heart ailments avoided outside food on many ..
A delegation of 42 accompanied Modi to Nepal on August 3-4, according to information available with ET. The team comprised top officials, personal secretaries, attendants and security officials. The delegation for his four-day visit to Japan beginning Augu ..
beginning August 31 is also expected to be of similar size, but is likely to include a minister as key deals are expected to be signed during that visit, government sources told ET.
Modi's predecessor, Manmohan Singh, often carried teams that had about 70 members, excluding the media party, on trips that were for two days. "The trimmer delegation is in keeping with the PM's direction for cutting costs given the condition of the Indian economy," an official well versed with the mater said.
Singh, on his last trip as PM to Myanmar for the BIMSTEC Summit on March 3-4, took an official delegation and accompanying delegations comprising several officials from the Prime Minister's Office, secretaries, spokesperson, Press Information Bureau officers and a host of private secretaries, personal physicians and two cooks, government source said. Singh who had heart ailments avoided outside food on many ..
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