Shinde-Fadnavis government spend crores on advertising! As much as 42 crores lost in 7 months, information revealed through RTI

CM Eknath Shinde- Devendra Fadnavis GOVT: A few months ago the Thackeray government (Uddhav Thackeray) was sidelined Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (CM Eknath Shinde) installed a new government going with BJP (Maharashtra BJP). Since coming to power Shinde-Fadnavis (Shinde Fadnavis) said that the government has left no stone unturned in advertising."https://marathi.abplive.com/topic/rti"It is clear from the information received under >Right to Information. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Maharashtra, I have received the shocking information that Rs 42 crore 44 lakhs have been spent from the government treasury for advertisements in just 7 months since their government was formed.

About 19 lakh 74 thousand rupees are spent on advertising in the pocket of public every day!

Right to information activist Nitin Yadav had sought this information from the Information Public Relations Department of the government. He has said that these payments were made available to me by the state government recently. The shocking information is that if we calculate the average of these expenses, it is seen that almost 19 lakh 74 thousand rupees per day have been squandered. Therefore, will the government curb the expenditure of this money going to the government from the pocket of common people? Nitin Yadav has also said that the question is whether the advertising government will really work for the development of the state instead of advertising. 

Shocking!
Chief Minister Eknath Shindei, who is only pretending to be in the interest of the people, has squandered 42 crore 44 lakh rupees from the government’s coffers for advertisements in just 7 months. The information has been disclosed in the Right to Information. The expenditure is 19 lakh 74 thousand rupees per day. pic.twitter.com/xyVUGbM2Rv

— Nitin Yadav (@nitin_s_yadav) February 5, 2023

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