Govt’s media delegation for Musi study tour to Seoul comes under fire

While the visit is aimed to study the Cheonggyecheon Riverfront Development in Seoul, questions are being raised over sending journalists rather than bureaucrats, engineers and experts, for the study tour.

Hyderabad: The State government’s decision to send a team of journalists on a study tour to Seoul in South Korea has kicked up a fresh controversy, with many questioning the government’s misplaced priorities.

While the visit is aimed to study the Cheonggyecheon Riverfront Development in Seoul, questions are being raised over sending journalists rather than bureaucrats, engineers and experts, for the study tour.

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The delegation comprises a Parliament member, an MLA, the Information and Public Relations Commissioner, the Director of Media and Communications, and 16 journalists from various media organisations. They will be in Seoul for four days excluding the travel period.

People, especially netizens, are questioning why not even a single official, engineer and expert from town planning, urban development, tourism and other departments, was included in the team.

Taking a dig at the government, BRS working president KT Rama Rao sarcastically complimented the State government for sending “a team of experts, environmentalists, hydrologists, engineers and bureaucrats” to study the Riverfront Development in Seoul.

“I am sure they will come back with excellent results and justify spending Rs 1.5 lakh crore (approximately USD 18 Billion) of public money,” he said.