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Niti Aayog's vice chairman Arvind Panagariya topped the list of foreign visits

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Last Updated : Jun 27 2017 | 6:41 PM IST

Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi's group of advisors at Niti Aayog have been rather active in reaching out to the world information provided to Business Standard under the Right to Information Act (RTI) shows.

The most avid globe trotter has been Niti Aayog’s vice chairman Arvind Panagariya who made nine foreign trips from April 2016 till March 2017. Panagariya has made 17 overseas visits since the Niti Aayog's rechristening in 2015 spending 45 days abroad.

Panagariya’s last foreign sojourn was to Frankfurt in Germany for the second G-20 Sherpa meeting held on March 22, 2017. Panagariya had begun 2016-17 with a visit

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