Aid to India will be stopped, pledges minister

[SR 71 Blackbird]

Well the article clearly tells that we don't require an aid.

 

[StormShadow]

this is where i get pissed.... f$%king Brits....

sale chor ....

Edit your post. Why should Britain give any aid in the first place. You dont have courtesy to thank them for giving aid all these years and yet abuse them. British economy is not good and Indian economy is doing nice. Hence They have stopped it. BTW...you getting pissed off is not Britishers fault.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Well the article clearly tells that we don't require an aid.

I say its a postive article for India and like to thank the Opening Post for sharing it.

 

[Nirvana]

I agree with you 100%.

But i want the Kohinoor back from the queens crown and displayed in Indian Museum then the brits can stop the money.

The Issue Of Kohinoor Was Discussed During Last Visit from Cameroon In India , We shall have It one day For sure.

 

[acetophenol]

I say its a postive article for India and like to thank the Opening Post for sharing it.

back fired thread!

 

[Roybot]

BBC News - India debates whether to continue receiving British aid

 

[Zeeshan360]

Edit your post. Why should Britain give any aid in the first place. You dont have courtesy to thank them for giving aid all these years and yet abuse them. British economy is not good and Indian economy is doing nice. Hence They have stopped it. BTW...you getting pissed off is not Britishers fault.

Atleast Indians dont abuse Brits to the level of Pakistani ppl abusing Americans .

If u r rule is applied , Pakistanis are more at fault than Indians

 

[Zeeshan360]

If I am not wrong , Pranab Mukherjee openly said that we dont need aid . If Britain is willing to give than give or else leave it

 

[justanobserver]

If I am not wrong , Pranab Mukherjee openly said that we dont need aid . If Britain is willing to give than give or else leave it

India to surrender aid if UK decides to cut it: Pranab - Economic Times

He said during Question Hour that New Delhi has "made it clear" to the Cameron administration that "we will voluntarily surrender" aid should UK decide to cut it.

India's stand was made clear during the recent visit of British Prime Minister and UK government was asked to give it prior information on any decision to cut the aid. "We don't require the aid... we will voluntarily surrender it," he said.

The new government in the United Kingdom has commissioned a review of each of their bilateral aid programmes being implemented by the Department for International Development (DFID) with recipient countries globally to determine where UK resources are most needed.

 

[justanobserver]

But i want the Kohinoor back from the queens crown and displayed in Indian Museum then the brits can stop the money.

Our agenda should go beyond the Kohinoor. Many more jewels, paintings, sculptures. We'll get them back, one way or another

 

[kingkobra]

Our agenda should go beyond the Kohinoor. Many more jewels, paintings, sculptures. We'll get them back, one way or another

thing i want most is sword of chatrapti shivaji maharaj..

 

[53fd]

It is foolhardy to think India doesn't need UK aid. In fact, India is the highest aid recipient from the UK:

India has more poverty than Pakistan today (recent figures from 2011):

StatPlanet

The MPI is a UNDP study btw. When India has 645 million living below the MPI, I think India would require UK aid & privately 'beg' for it, even if they are headstrong enough not to admit it in public.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Britain is to stop giving aid money to India, Andrew Mitchell, the International Development secretary has said.

The Government has come under pressure to explain why British taxpayers are giving millions to countries like India at a time of public sector cuts.

Mr Mitchell’s international aid budget is one of only two, alongside health, which has been ring fenced and so is protected from the austerity drive.

India has been singled out because of increasing prosperity and the fact that it has a nuclear programme.

Mr Mitchell said it was not only “morally right” but in the UK's national interests to continue to fund development projects around the world.
He said that he wanted the UK to become a “development superpower”, adding: “Britain is doing brilliant things around the world…

“Just as America is a military superpower so because of the brilliant things that Britain is doing in the poorest places in the world, saving lives.”

A report from MPs on the Commons international development committee published on Tuesday is expected to be critical of Britain for giving money to India.

In a television interview, Mr Mitchell said that the Indian programme had been frozen “so for the first time this year since the war it is not Britain’s largest development programme”.

Mr Mitchell told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show that he did not think that the UK would continue to fund programmes in India “for very much longer”.

He said: “India is a place where there are more poor people than the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, Britain’s programme is demonstrative it shows how we can get more people into school, and women particularly.

“These programmes are massively scaled up by the Indian taxpayer.
British know how is making a huge contribution – now is not the time to stop the programme in India but I don’t think we will be there for very much longer.”

The Government has been under fire for continuing to give 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product to the developing world, despite the domestic cuts programme.

Mr Mitchell said: “I think it was absolutely right of the Coalition to say in the early days that we would not balance the books on the poorest people in Britain or on the planet.

“We don't protect our security only by tanks and guns but also by training the police in Afghanistan, getting girls into school in the Horn of Africa and building up government structures in the Middle East.”

Mr Mitchell was speaking ahead of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) conference in London on Monday.

The lives of more than four million children can be saved by a set of vaccines which cost the same as a cup of coffee, he said.

He said: “We had a look when we came into Government at all the different ways that Britain does development with British taxpayer funds and one of the very best was the Global Alliance of Vaccines and Immunisation, where effectively you can vaccinate a kid in the poor world for the price of a cup of coffee against all five of the killer diseases which mean so many of these children die before the age of five.”

Mr Mitchell said the Government would also match philanthropic donations by private individuals and companies.

He said that by Monday lunchtime he hoped to have “sufficient funding over the next four years to vaccinate 250,000 children in the poor world and save millions of lives”.

He added: “It’s really important. It’s Britain's big ask for development this year. We want to support it very strongly. We have a leadership role in all of this.”

Gavi is facing a shortfall of £2.3 billion for its work over the next five years, charities have warned. The conference is being chaired by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.

Writing in The Observer newspaper, Mr Cameron said he was “convinced” it was right to protect the country’s aid budget.

He said: “I don't think it would be right to ignore the difference we can make, turn inwards solely to our own problems and effectively balance the books while breaking our promises to the world’s poorest.

“Instead, we should step up, deliver on our promises to the world's poorest and help save millions of lives.”

He added: “The British people are not prone to self-aggrandising. But I think there are times when we should acknowledge the good that we do.”

Mr Gates said Monday’s meeting would “very, very positive”, adding: “This is my life's work, and days like tomorrow energise us to do even better.”

Aid to India will be stopped, pledges minister - Telegraph


I thought we are the only nation who beg others for running the country.

You highlighted the part you liked but conveniently ignored the part that you didnt.

They are considering cutting aid to india because of increasing prosperity and because of that very reason India does not have to beg for aid like some others.

On the basis of prosperity i dont think britain will cut its aid to Pak very soon , hope Pakistan sees this day too someday.

As of now even if the aid is ever cut it will only be due to terror related issues for Pak.

 

[Zeeshan360]

India has larger population .

It's better to compare per capita aid of population .

And there are other coubtries like Japan US China who give aid

 

[harpoon]

UK can keep their aid.

Goodthing we Indians are not asking for compensation for your 200 year colonization of India. Otherwise UK economy will go bankrupt.