Avoid 5-star hotels and PSU perks: PM Narendra Modi to ministers

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Avoid 5-star hotels and PSU perks: PM Narendra Modi to ministers
TNN | Updated: Aug 20, 2017, 04:23AM IST

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PM Narendra Modi has cautioned his ministers from staying in five-star hotels
He also asked them not to avail any benefit from public sector undertakings attached to their ministries
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cautioned his ministers against staying in five-star hotels and availing of any benefit from public sector undertakings attached to their ministries, including using their cars.

Shortly after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Modi asked the ministers to stay back and then read the riot act to them. He is understood to have said that he was extremely unhappy with the recent tendency of some ministers' preference to stay in five-star hotels instead of accommodation that the government provides. The PM made it clear to the ministers that they should stick to government accommodation while on official duty and not give into the "temptation" of staying in five star hotels, sources said.