Hyderabad, March 5 -- A Right to Information (RTI) query raised by an activist has revealed that the expenditure of the "leadership for the 21st Century program" attended by Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at the Harvard Kennedy School in the US from January 25 to 30 was borne by the Education Department.

The portfolio of Education is held by the Chief Minister himself.

On February 27, RTI activist Kareen Ansari had raised multiple RTI queries, such as the travel expenditure (airfare, local transportation) of the Chief Minister's educational and research trip, course/program fee, accommodation/living expenditure, daily allowance or any other incidental expenses.

Among other queries with the Public Information Officer of the Ge...