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Centre spent ₹408.46 crore on govt advertisements in 2022-2023: Anurag Thakur
The Union minister was responded to questions raised by CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP AA Rahim on the details of money spent on government advertisements each year for the last five years
The Centre spent a total of ₹408.46 crore on government advertisements between 2022-23 through print, electronic media and outdoor publicity, Union minister for I&B and youth affairs & sports Anurag Thakur told Parliament on Thursday.
“ ₹155.27 crore was spent on electronic media, ₹220.34 crore on print media and ₹32.85 crore for outdoor publicity in 2022-23,” Thakur’s written reply tabled in Parliament read.
The Union minister was responded to questions raised by CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP AA Rahim on the details of money spent on government advertisements each year for the last five years.
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In the tabled reply, the Union minister, in a tabular format, gave a detailed break up on the advertisements across the three formats in the last five years.
While the government spent over ₹429.55 crore on ads (2018-19) in print media, the next fiscal it was ₹295.06 cr in 2019-20 while in 2020-21, it was ₹197.49 crore in 2020-21 and ₹179.04 crore in 2021-22.
Electronic media was significantly higher in 2018-19, ( ₹514.29 crore) and in the subsequent years it was, ₹316.99 crore (2019-20), ₹167.90 crore (2020-21), ₹101.24 crore (2021-22) and ₹155.27 crore (2022-23).
For outdoor publicity, ₹235.33 crore was spent in 2018-19, ₹96.14 crore in 2019-20, ₹44.08 crore in 2020-21, ₹35.7 crore in 2021-22 and ₹32.85 crore in 2022-23.
“All the expenditure was incurred by the government through the Central Bureau of Communication (CBC)”, Thakur stated in his reply.
