Sameer Agarwal » rti http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog His views, thoughts, introspection and rants Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:42:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Prez’s power bill: Rs 16cr in 5 years http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/05/prezs-power-bill-rs-16cr-in-5-years.html http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/05/prezs-power-bill-rs-16cr-in-5-years.html#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 08:56:21 +0000 sameer http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/?p=458 Yes, believe it or not, Rs 16.71 crore (USD 4m+) was the power bill for the President of India for the past 5 years while the prime minister of the country spent Rs 37.56 lakhs (USD 90k+) over the past 3 years. Forget about the money spent imagine the amount of ‘energy’ wasted. Wonder if the Govt. of India will ever “go green“!

Btw, these figures were revealed as a “Right to Information” response, so guess the citizens of India can now make the government bare it all. Good!

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