Shocking as it might sound, a dinner hosted by the Chandrababu Naidu government for just 19 guests in February cost a whopping Rs 18.29 lakh, at the rate of Rs 96,285 per head!
This was revealed from an RTI query posed by an activist to the state government.
The event was a two-day conference on intellectual property rights held by the government in Vijayawada on February 23 and 24.
As per the information obtained under the RTI Act, only 19 guest including Supreme Court and High Court judges and other legal luminaries attended the dinner hosted by the government on February 23.
While an amount of Rs 13.38 lakh was spent on actual dinner, the remaining amount of Rs 4.90 lakh was spent on tents, tables and other arrangements.
The guest list has only 19 names and even one were to assume that their gunmen, drivers and other assistants also had the dinner, the number would not exceed 100. Even then, the dinner would not have cost that much!
Does it not show the kind of corruption involved even in organising dinner for judicial officers? Or wastage of public money just to please judges?
