# Modi’s foreign visits cost Rs 557.51 crore since 2021 2026-08-06T14:12:28+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 4 independent outlets Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits to 77 countries cost the exchequer Rs 557.51 crore between 2021 and 2026, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Spending peaked in 2025, when visits to 23 countries cost Rs 187.83 crore. Expenditure so far in 2026 stood at Rs 74.59 crore, though bills for a June France visit were still being compiled. The government said 316 agreements and MoUs were signed during visits since July 2021, while India received $381.8 billion in foreign direct investment between April 2021 and December 2025. ## Coverage - economictimes.indiatimes.com - hindustantimes.com - nationalheraldindia.com - indiatoday.in This story was synthesised by AI from the 4 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 4 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:02:18+00:00. Tags: foreign visits, Narendra Modi, Parliament, public spending, अमेरिका Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/modis-foreign-visits-cost-rs-557-51-crore-since-2021/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/modis-foreign-visits-cost-rs-557-51-crore-since-2021/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/