As Delhi was given an entire makeover in view of the G20 Summit and to host world leaders, right here is how much the country spent on the worldwide summit.
The G20 Summit in New Delhi was deemed successful after the adoption of the Delhi Declaration by all of the member nations. However, not many individuals know that the Indian authorities spent a large amount of cash to host the G20 Summit this 12 months.
The G20 Summit in India has turn out to be one of many most expensive G20 conferences yet, with the vast majority of the cash spent within the renovations and revamping of central Delhi, in addition to the development of the G20 venue Bharat Mandapam.
According to an official assertion by Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi, the federal government allotted funds to a number of departments throughout Delhi together with Delhi Police, PWD, MCD, DDA, and NHAI, taking the overall price of the G20 Summit hosted by India to over Rs 4000 crore, in line with PTI.
An entire breakdown of prices was talked about by Lekhi, Rs 340 crore was assigned to the Delhi Police, and Rs 700 crore was assigned for the development and restore of roads within the nationwide capital forward of the G20 Summit.
Through this, the G20 Summit in India has turn out to be one of many most expensive world conferences of all time, with the overall price popping out to over Rs 4100 crore. However, India isn’t the one country to drop a large bundle relating to the G20 Summit.
China has hosted the most expensive G20 Summit yet, spending over Rs 1.9 lakh crore (USD 24 billion), in line with a report in The Economist. China had hosted the 2016 G20 Summit within the metropolis of Hangzhou, which turned the most expensive G20 hosted until date.
Further, Canada has spend over Rs 4300 crore on the summit hosted by them in 2010, and Australia had spent Rs 2653 crore on the G20 Summit in 2014, which was the primary G20 attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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