From Jan 1, UK to stop financial aid to India

[Sky lord]

Helleluja !!

Finally!!

I think we have been asking them to stop their aid for at least three years now. They refused earlier as they use it as their slush fund.

 

[vayuputhra]

Bangalore's BBMP budget is 60,000 crores, where does 190 crores fit, it spends this amount to just paint govt buildings after giving this peanut amount, they brag that India launched its satellites, rockets, and building its army with their aid, instead their aid went to foundations like ford, and other British organisations, mainly for conversions, good riddence they will not have the right to question us.

Bangalore's BBMP budget is 60,000 crores, where does 190 crores fit, it spends this amount to just paint govt buildings after giving this peanut amount, they brag that India launched its satellites, rockets, and building its army with their aid, instead their aid went to foundations like ford, and other British organisations, mainly for conversions, good riddence they will not have the right to question us.

 

[Providence]

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

 

[tsinga]

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

Excuse me?

This has been communicated to the Govt of Britain:
India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph

British foreign aid: India tells Britain 'we don't need the peanuts you offer us' | Daily Mail Online


Secondly, the aid by British is not, I repeat NOT given to the Government of India. It is given to private groups. So the question of returning or not does not arise.

We have been asking them to stop this farce of aid for a while now which ends up with Indian private lobbying groups.

Just like we refused aid for the Tsunami that struck India way back in early 2000's.
India declines international assistance for tsunami relief | Asia Pacific | ABC Radio Australia

Thanks, but no thanks for any aid.
Do not mistake India for Pakistan or Afghanistan or some such that goes out to the world asking for aid.

 

[vayuputhra]

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

We Indians dare you to give back tons of gold and diamonds robbed by Britishers, give back our kahinoor, so now looters are daring to question, what you were giving was 1/10 of the interest you owe us for the amount you looted from our country.by the the way your aid was given to British NGO'S and not to Indian government, and what do your NGOS do? you ask them, england should make a one time settlement with India and provide 100 billion$ and apologize for the atrocities committed by the British.

 

[SmilingBuddha]

Kejriwala , testa setalwad ran NGO's which were also funded by new york based ford foundation ..now look where they are at..all this foreign aid has given us more problems than benefits.

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

I dare you to do the same, give back all the things you took from us..including the people you killed...come back when you can do that

 

[Dandpatta]

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

Return all that you have stolen, looted, debauched and raped from your ex-colonies including the number of lives lost due to the Bengal famine that your famed fat assed Winston Churchill deliberately looked the other way causing innumerable loss of lives.

The list goes on for you Briturds ! Talk of us returning when you have done zilch in terms of reparations. Till then, remain living in the past of pomposity.

 

[Providence]

Return all that you have stolen, looted, debauched and raped from your ex-colonies including the number of lives lost due to the Bengal famine that your famed fat assed Winston Churchill deliberately looked the other way causing innumerable loss of lives.

The list goes on for you Briturds ! Talk of us returning when you have done zilch in terms of reparations. Till then, remain living in the past of pomposity.

Read the post I have quoted again. May be your trap will be shut.

 

[Viper 94]

Every country has the potential to grow rich.

not every country
a country needs certain traits for it to become rich or even middle class

 

[Hussain Farooqui]

Lets not go overboard. We are still having a per capita income of a 3rd world country. Our GDP may be in top 10 but unless our per capita income counts in top 50 nations, we have a long way to go.

I think the Bharati economy is good enough to give a good standard of living to the Bharati public. The problem may be lying in the distribution of the national income. By improving the distribution system, public poverty can be alleviated.

not every country
a country needs certain traits for it to become rich or even middle class

Absolutely right. The problem with Pakistan is the external intervention by the foreign powers. Our country hardly remained independent after the murder of Liaqat Ali Khan.

 

[Force Awakens]

We no longer need it.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

TNNThe government said UK had provided financial aid for government programmes between 2013-2015 (Rs 855.01 cr in 2013-14, Rs 601.77 cr in 2014-15 and 190.06 cr in 2015-16).
NEW DELHI: From January 1, 2016, India will no longer receive financial aid from the UK, a decision which was taken by the British government in 2012 after a domestic outcry about India's growing economic status.

The transition has taken three years during which the existing financial grant projects were completed and the unutilized funds moved into what are called "technical assistance" projects. The MEA informed Parliament last week that "it was agreed that the existing financial grant projects will be completed responsibly as planned and technical cooperation would continue by sharing skills and expertise or in investments in private sector projects".

In 2012, then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had famously said British aid was "a peanut" (sic) in India's total development spend and that the country could very well do without it. This followed loud voices in the UK protesting against British aid to India, a country which, they said, has a robust space and defence programme. Aid activists, however, pointed to India's poor millions to make a case for retaining the programme.

The MEA said, "The new component Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI), introduced in 2011 to promote private sector investment in eight low income states of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, UP and Rajasthan, will continue."

The government said UK had provided financial aid for government programmes between 2013-2015 (Rs 855.01 cr in 2013-14, Rs 601.77 cr in 2014-15 and 190.06 cr in 2015-16). At present, there are 26 government sector projects with DFID assistance at the Centre and in MP, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar-- primarily in health, education, governance and urban reforms sectors.

However, British media reported in early December that fresh Whitehall statistics showed that despite the UK promise to cut aid to India, there appeared to be a spike in development spending which rose to £279 million in 2014 from £268 million in the previous year. The only other country, the report said, which received more than India was Ethiopia, but that showed a dip of £8million from 2013.

The Indian government said in 2014-15 and 2015-16, five new agreements have been signed for technical assistance projects in the areas of agricultural reforms, urban infrastructure, energy access, etc. Under the new parameters technical cooperation will focus on policy and skills.

From Jan 1, UK to stop financial aid to India - Times of India

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India is still biggest receipent of aid from USA

 

[dray]

Let us be thankful to them for being Kind enough to give us money,what ever may be the amount, the same money would have used for development or uplifting of poor souls........ I guess time has come that this money should be provided to nations which really need them.......

No need to be thankful here, they have looted much more from (undivided) India compared to those miniscule 'aid'. Good that the farce has ended.

Now it is time to wrap up that Commonwealth; the last remaining legacy of colonial British raj, we should pull out of that, others will follow.

 

[Kal Muah]

India is still biggest receipent of aid from USA

I don't know how you became counter terrorism expert, do you even read bro?

 

[livingdead]

wow I see a lot of ingrate dumbasses ! If you guys find it to be damned, I dare you guys to return it !!

it is not given to govt of India, I think you should read the posts before commenting.. aid comes with lots of conditions attached like expectation to buy their military hardware..
What if I give you 50 quid a year to have food because you are poorer than me, but I bitch every time you go to cinema with your family, and when you say 'hey I dont want your 50 quid my family spends many times that amount on food alone', I call you ingrate dumbass trash.