Nagaland Post: Nagaland: Wednesday, July 05, 2017.
The Ayush
Ministry alone has spent Rs 34.50 crore on the International Yoga Day in the
past two years, it said in reply to an RTI application, adding that data on
expenditure by other ministries is not available.
The
expenditure includes Rs 16.40 crore for 2015 and Rs 18.10 crore in 2016, said the
ministry’s Central Public Information Officer Banamali Naik in reply to a query
by social activist Nutan Thakur under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The total
expenditure on International Yoga Day 2017 has not been finalised as yet.
The CPIO made
it clear that this is the expenditure incurred by the Ayurveda, Yoga and
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (Ayush) Ministry and the total
expenditure on Yoga Day by various other ministries and state governments is
not available.
He also
declined to provide a copy of documents as regards to these expenses, saying
they are too bulky and run in hundreds of pages, Thakur told IANS.
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