The procedure involved in raising the bills for chartered flights for the Prime Minister’s visit abroad cannot be disclosed because of “important security concerns”, the Central Information Commission has held.
The current Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur, however, did not alter an order passed by his predecessor Satyanand Mishra, who had ruled that the expenditure incurred on VVIP visits, including those of the Prime Minister and Ministers, should be disclosed proactively “in larger public interest”.