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India unlikely to accept foreign donations for Kerala floods
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Giving aid to NGO and to govt is not same..
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BTW the largest numbers of beggars are in India...fun fact, check the numbers.
And India is the biggest receiver of foreign aid...beggars who??? It is just that Indians are delusional and ignorant...top that with being arrogant as well...Pakistan people are rich, government is poor, in India people are poor, govt. is rich as they stash all the monies...got it.
$66bn USD in total assistance for a country of 1.3bn (India) people and $44bn USD in economic aid alone for a country of 200 million people (Pakistan). Try use your head for once.
The graphic you shared says this by the way: "US assistance to India currently is around $100 million after Delhi embarked on a course of weaning itself away from aid in the 1990s"
These figures are from 2012.
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No aid to Pakistan govt...now. Loans and grants/funds ...yes.
Also Pakistan NGO's gets some fund/aid like India...India gets it in a much bigger scale.
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NGO get fund for their own projects.. they have to get registered for foreign donation..Recently many NGO license were cancelled because of fund misuse and related issues.
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So Israel shouldn't have got the biggest share of it. This is the absolute figure when Pakistan was an ally of US in WOT and what not. BTW India is still getting the British aid...this is a 2017 article and Pakistan is not getting any US aid now...maybe some charities are getting it...
https://www.dawn.com/news/1380876
Britain's £1.5billion foreign aid budget is being used to cut smoking in China and keep homes in India cool
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4874708/1-5billion-aid-fund-spent-India-China.html
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If my memory serve right, Pakistan army impaled Indian Army in kashmir in 1948, merged a big chunk of land into federation of Pakistan called Azad (liberated) kashmir.
No one gives flying fk in Pakistan. There is an opportunity now to exploit and since there is no forigen sponsored government in Pakistani now, there are plenty of things that can be worked on.
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No. We will let the monkies climb and present us the fruit to enjoy. Thank you very much.
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India is likely to refuse relief aid from foreign countries like the UAE, Maldives, and Qatar for the devastating Kerala floods. The Centre wants to tap into its own resources first.
The same policy was followed by the previous UPA government during other national disasters.
ThePrint asks – Is India self-reliant or too proud in refusing Rs 700-cr aid for Kerala from UAE?
India has taken an unfortunate stand by refusing UAE aid
Thomas Isaacc Minister of finance, Kerala
This is an unfortunate stand that the Centre has taken. India need not have this kind of an attitude. The central government has its limitations and can say it can offer only Rs 500 crore, but then why should it prevent other countries from helping? Malayalees are living in these countries and contributing to their economies.
Other nations and groups, including even football teams, are coming forward to support Kerala. Everyone has been trying to help. The secular position that Kerala has upheld has been praised.
This has been one of the worst floods in the history of Kerala. The destruction has been widespread and many people have been dislocated. We have successfully completed the process of relocating people, with minimal deaths despite the bad flooding. Now we have 1.25 million people in the relief camps. The whole challenge is to get the camps to function properly and another week from now, people will start going back to their houses.
We will have to come up with a programme to reconstruct houses in the worst-affected areas. It is a difficult time and we need money for this. We estimate that the losses due to the floods have been close to Rs 20,000 crore.
UAE is offering help with no strings attached, shouldn’t affect our principles
Oommen Chandy Former chief minister, Kerala
I cannot agree with the view that the Centre does not want to take financial help from other countries. I am writing to the Prime Minister stating that Kerala has not got sufficient funds. The current government has assessed the losses at Rs 20,000 crore and the figure is absolutely wrong. I have travelled across the state and seen the extent of damage. The losses are close to Rs 1 lakh crore.
Lakhs of people have lost their houses and we will have to rebuild those. The contribution from the UAE reflects the cordial relations between Kerala and Dubai. The UAE has always praised Keralites for their role in building their country. And, there is nothing wrong with the country helping Kerala.
The government should examine the issue. The financial aid is being offered with no strings attached. They are extending a helping hand to Kerala without any compulsion or condition, and in no way would it affect our principles.
In Kerala, lakhs and lakhs of people are suffering and countries like the UAE are extending help on humanitarian ground. We need all kinds of help from other states and governments for rescue and rehabilitation. This is not wasteful expenditure, and instead will help in rebuilding lives. The Centre should understand the nature and circumstances of the help offered.
What the Centre is doing is cruel. Are we not living in a federal system?
Dr. K.G. Thara Former head, Kerala State Disaster Management Cell
It is atrocious that the central government should deny such international assistance because the Disaster Management Act and Policy, 2016 says that we cannot seek help, but if international agencies offer help, then we can accept it.
The dimension of the disaster that we are seeing in Kerala is far beyond what one can imagine. Kerala will find it very difficult to tide over it even with national and international help. We have taken international help earlier for issues such as water and sanitation, water pollution, telecommunications, relief materials and mobile medicare units to rural areas.
Right now what is important is the cleaning of houses, ensuring there is no breakout of an epidemic and helping people restart their normal lives. We have a huge task before us. We can even seek help from International agencies such as WHO and the UNICEF have said they will help.
What the central government is doing is very cruel. Are we not living in a federal system?
I don’t think this is a question of self-reliance, the move I suspect is politically motivated. It will be foolishness if we don’t rise above political differences and partisan views. I have no political leaning, I am a scientist, but I am shocked by the central government’s behaviour.
India may want to try a ‘rarest of rare’ clause when it comes to foreign aid
Rama Lakshmi Editor, Opinion, ThePrint
Every natural disaster is followed by a second disaster that is fully man-made. The second one exposes the utter lack of preparedness and the debilitating inefficiencies in the state machinery.
Foreign aid was offered in some of the natural disasters that I have covered – the 1993 Latur earthquake, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In Latur and Nepal, foreign aid was accepted. During the tsunami, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declined aid – a policy India has maintained for more than a decade now. It was a combination of national pride and concerns about allowing foreign groups in the strategically significant areas of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Other countries affected by the tsunami that year accepted foreign help.
Foreign aid in disaster relief works best when there is a local capacity to absorb it. Often, there is poor and delayed communication of what is needed. There are not enough local agencies that can work with foreign groups efficiently or transport and distribute the supplies. Foreign language-speaking relief and rescue workers and doctors wait endlessly for local chaperones and guidance. In Latur, thousands of instant-noodle cups and foreign women’s clothing landed in remote Maharashtrian villages – something that the local people could not use easily and immediately. In Nepal, there were huge stockpiles of foreign relief tents at the Kathmandu airport languishing for days – even as local relief workers in the city kept saying they needed more tents.
It took several days for Nepal to set up a coordinating agency to use the foreign help.
But not all countries and situations can afford to have a blanket ban on foreign help. India may want to try a ‘rarest of rare’ clause for this.
The same policy was followed by the previous UPA government during other national disasters.
ThePrint asks – Is India self-reliant or too proud in refusing Rs 700-cr aid for Kerala from UAE?
India has taken an unfortunate stand by refusing UAE aid
This is an unfortunate stand that the Centre has taken. India need not have this kind of an attitude. The central government has its limitations and can say it can offer only Rs 500 crore, but then why should it prevent other countries from helping? Malayalees are living in these countries and contributing to their economies.
Other nations and groups, including even football teams, are coming forward to support Kerala. Everyone has been trying to help. The secular position that Kerala has upheld has been praised.
This has been one of the worst floods in the history of Kerala. The destruction has been widespread and many people have been dislocated. We have successfully completed the process of relocating people, with minimal deaths despite the bad flooding. Now we have 1.25 million people in the relief camps. The whole challenge is to get the camps to function properly and another week from now, people will start going back to their houses.
We will have to come up with a programme to reconstruct houses in the worst-affected areas. It is a difficult time and we need money for this. We estimate that the losses due to the floods have been close to Rs 20,000 crore.
UAE is offering help with no strings attached, shouldn’t affect our principles
I cannot agree with the view that the Centre does not want to take financial help from other countries. I am writing to the Prime Minister stating that Kerala has not got sufficient funds. The current government has assessed the losses at Rs 20,000 crore and the figure is absolutely wrong. I have travelled across the state and seen the extent of damage. The losses are close to Rs 1 lakh crore.
Lakhs of people have lost their houses and we will have to rebuild those. The contribution from the UAE reflects the cordial relations between Kerala and Dubai. The UAE has always praised Keralites for their role in building their country. And, there is nothing wrong with the country helping Kerala.
The government should examine the issue. The financial aid is being offered with no strings attached. They are extending a helping hand to Kerala without any compulsion or condition, and in no way would it affect our principles.
In Kerala, lakhs and lakhs of people are suffering and countries like the UAE are extending help on humanitarian ground. We need all kinds of help from other states and governments for rescue and rehabilitation. This is not wasteful expenditure, and instead will help in rebuilding lives. The Centre should understand the nature and circumstances of the help offered.
What the Centre is doing is cruel. Are we not living in a federal system?
It is atrocious that the central government should deny such international assistance because the Disaster Management Act and Policy, 2016 says that we cannot seek help, but if international agencies offer help, then we can accept it.
The dimension of the disaster that we are seeing in Kerala is far beyond what one can imagine. Kerala will find it very difficult to tide over it even with national and international help. We have taken international help earlier for issues such as water and sanitation, water pollution, telecommunications, relief materials and mobile medicare units to rural areas.
Right now what is important is the cleaning of houses, ensuring there is no breakout of an epidemic and helping people restart their normal lives. We have a huge task before us. We can even seek help from International agencies such as WHO and the UNICEF have said they will help.
What the central government is doing is very cruel. Are we not living in a federal system?
I don’t think this is a question of self-reliance, the move I suspect is politically motivated. It will be foolishness if we don’t rise above political differences and partisan views. I have no political leaning, I am a scientist, but I am shocked by the central government’s behaviour.
India may want to try a ‘rarest of rare’ clause when it comes to foreign aid
Every natural disaster is followed by a second disaster that is fully man-made. The second one exposes the utter lack of preparedness and the debilitating inefficiencies in the state machinery.
Foreign aid was offered in some of the natural disasters that I have covered – the 1993 Latur earthquake, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In Latur and Nepal, foreign aid was accepted. During the tsunami, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declined aid – a policy India has maintained for more than a decade now. It was a combination of national pride and concerns about allowing foreign groups in the strategically significant areas of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Other countries affected by the tsunami that year accepted foreign help.
Foreign aid in disaster relief works best when there is a local capacity to absorb it. Often, there is poor and delayed communication of what is needed. There are not enough local agencies that can work with foreign groups efficiently or transport and distribute the supplies. Foreign language-speaking relief and rescue workers and doctors wait endlessly for local chaperones and guidance. In Latur, thousands of instant-noodle cups and foreign women’s clothing landed in remote Maharashtrian villages – something that the local people could not use easily and immediately. In Nepal, there were huge stockpiles of foreign relief tents at the Kathmandu airport languishing for days – even as local relief workers in the city kept saying they needed more tents.
It took several days for Nepal to set up a coordinating agency to use the foreign help.
But not all countries and situations can afford to have a blanket ban on foreign help. India may want to try a ‘rarest of rare’ clause for this.
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In flood-hit Kerala, controversy erupts over who pays for food grains; Centre says settling bills not a priority
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had sought 1.18 lakh tonnes of food grains from the central government, which is the monthly allocation to Kerala under the National Food Security Act. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution allotted 89,540 metric tonnes of food grains to the state in response to the demand.
However, news website Kaumudi reported that the Union food ministry, in a letter to the state food and safety department, said that the Kerala administration will have to pay Rs 233 crore to the Centre for the food grains.
Other controversies over the Kerala floods
Despite the dire state of Kerala, the flood situation has not been free from controversies, one of which cropped up after the United Arab Emirates (USE) extended $100 million (roughly Rs 700 crore) as financial assistance to rebuild the southern Indian state. The controversy is not over the West Asian country's gesture, but over the fact that the aid it offered was higher than the monetary assistance provided by the Centre.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/no-...s-for-food-grains-sent-as-relief-5013401.html
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had sought 1.18 lakh tonnes of food grains from the central government, which is the monthly allocation to Kerala under the National Food Security Act. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution allotted 89,540 metric tonnes of food grains to the state in response to the demand.
However, news website Kaumudi reported that the Union food ministry, in a letter to the state food and safety department, said that the Kerala administration will have to pay Rs 233 crore to the Centre for the food grains.
Other controversies over the Kerala floods
Despite the dire state of Kerala, the flood situation has not been free from controversies, one of which cropped up after the United Arab Emirates (USE) extended $100 million (roughly Rs 700 crore) as financial assistance to rebuild the southern Indian state. The controversy is not over the West Asian country's gesture, but over the fact that the aid it offered was higher than the monetary assistance provided by the Centre.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/no-...s-for-food-grains-sent-as-relief-5013401.html
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