Sonia Gandhi’s Foreign Travel Expenses, Denial Documents

When Narendra Modi raised the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s Foreign travel stating that Rs 1880 Crore was involved I posted that in the face of the denial by the RTI applicant Ramesh,Hisar,Modi had rushed in without checking facts and that it did not fit his stature.

Now though the case remains as it was, the information that the Government is bent on withholding information on the expenses incurred by Sonia Gandhi‘s Travel by a Blanket ‘No information” and Chief Information Commissioner

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In any case, the expenditure made by any individual on her
treatment, in India or abroad, is a private information and cannot be the subject
matter of an RTI application.
5. The case is disposed of accordingly.
6. Copies of this order be given free of cost to the parties.”

asserts the fact that the Government is hiding.

True, it is personal.

The issue becomes Public of the tax payer’s money is spent.

A simple declaration that the Government has not spent any money account of Sonia Gandhi’s Foreign Travel would suffice.

Why does not the Government say so?

The Document.

Central Information Commission, New Delhi
File No.CIC/SM/C/2011/001470
Right to Information Act2005Under Section (19)
Date of hearing
Date of decision
:
:
3 May 2012
3 May 2012
Name of the Complainant : Shri Naveen Kumar,
S/o. Shri Ram Chandar Sharma,
Village Mathara Dharmpur, Post Aalpur
Mathara, Tehsil Chandosi,
Distt – Moradabad, UP – 202 410.
Name of the Public Authority : CPIO, Prime Minister’s Office,
South Block, New Delhi – 110 101.
CPIO, Ministry of External Affairs,
(RTI Division), 882, Akbar Bhavan,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi….

2. The Appellant was present in the Moradabad studio of the NIC. The
respondents representing the Prime Minister’s office, NAC, Ministry of External
Affairs and the Lok Sabha were present in our chamber. We heard all their
submissions.
3. The Appellant had wanted to know about the expenditure incurred on the
treatment of Smt Sonia Gandhi in the USA during AugustSeptember 2011. His
application had been transferred to various other public authorities. The CPIO
concerned in each of these public authorities had informed the Appellant that
they had no such record to show any expenditure having been made.
4. During the hearing, the Appellant was keen to know about the details of
any expenditure incurred by the government in this regard. From the
submissions made by the Respondents, it was quite clear that neither any
reimbursement for any such expenditure had been claimed by the individual
concerned from these public authorities nor any expenditure made in this
regard. In other words, till now, the government has incurred no expenditure in
this regard. Therefore, there is no information to be disclosed about the likely
CIC/SM/C/2011/001470expenditure. In any case, the expenditure made by any individual on her
treatment, in India or abroad, is a private information and cannot be the subject
matter of an RTI application.
5. The case is disposed of accordingly.
6. Copies of this order be given free of cost to the parties.
(Satyananda Mishra)
Chief Information Commissioner
Authenticated true copy. Additional copies of orders shall be supplied against
application and payment of the charges prescribed under the Act to the CPIO of this
Commission.
(Vijay Bhalla)
Deputy Registrar