Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Foreign Trips Cost Over ₹550 Crore in Six Years

India’s foreign ministry reports that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overseas trips have cost more than ₹550 crore (about $6.6 billion) over the past six years. In the current fiscal year 2026, the expenditure reached ₹74.58 crore, with a provisional total of ₹180 crore for 2025 and ₹109 crore for 2024.

The most expensive single visit was to Norway, where ₹17.46 crore was spent, followed by trips to Israel (₹11.92 crore), the Seychelles (₹8.22 crore), Sweden (₹6.33 crore), Malaysia (₹5.57 crore) and New Zealand (₹5.44 crore). Across all trips, 316 memoranda of understanding were signed covering defence, trade, technology, AI, semiconductors, renewable energy, health, education, space cooperation and other sectors.

The ministry also highlighted that between April 2021 and December 2025 India attracted about $381.8 billion in direct foreign investment, which it attributes in part to the diplomatic outreach of these visits.