India's Mars mission sparks another UK aid row

[Meluhan]

you mean an India in the following video

India in 2030!!!!!!!! - YouTube

India would have a lot of disgusting white servants by 2030?



You should ask for the British to return them. Otherwise, attack them with Brahmos.

its the core wish of every patriotic indians .a thief will remain a thief ,we spit on there fake civilization ..its the matter of time and right leadership.truth is divine !

 

[faithfulguy]

yes i agreed , you were exploiters and very soon we will see the end of darkness which you have created ...when the world will stop buying your nonsense .

The world is a much better place with America. If its not for American, you Indians would not be able to boast about the owning P8I, the most advance anti-sub plane out there. Also, America created an exception for India to build nukes and removed the sanctions. India should be grateful for America.

 

[ALOK31]

The world is a much better place with America. If its not for American, you Indians would not be able to boast about the owning P8I, the most advance anti-sub plane out there. Also, America created an exception for India to build nukes and removed the sanctions. India should be grateful for America.

 

[faithfulguy]

its the core wish of every patriotic indians .a thief will remain a thief ,we spit on there fake civilization ..its the matter of time and right leadership.truth is divine !

So does most Indians see no problem of having a lot of "disgusting white servants" just like you? You really open up the eyes of most Americans about India and Indian racism against white people.

Also, how is America a fake civilization? How do you define a fake civilization?

 

[ThePunisher]

@faithful ... it should be america and all her citizens that should be thankful to India... If its not for India, nobody would have searched for America ... poor Columbus ferried for India

 

[Meluhan]

I don't believe that the Mughal Empire regard itself as the successor to any previous "Bharata" empire. Its a new empire created fromn invasion that replace an existing Muslim sultanate. It never regard itself as a successor of any previous empire in India. Because each new empire regard itself as a new nation, the present day India was created out of the British India.



I'm glad most Indians do not think like you. Many smart Indians want to be an ally of the US. Are you sure you are a real Indian? You don't even know your history.



The British did not divided British India into Pakistan and India. Its the choice of the people. Actually, India illegally occupied princely state of Hyderabad. Read up on operation Polo to learn the illegal invasion that should be condemned and rectified.

brother , i know yours as well mine history . the thing in which i find ourselves better placed than you guys is we are yet to be westernised in masses in terms of population .your country is completely sold out and mine is on the way ....why make guns and fire ...when the blood is same .Peace !

 

[Hello_10]

India's Mars mission sparks another UK aid row

London: The announcement of India's Mars mission has sparked another round of tabloid-driven controversy over the wisdom of sending 280 million pounds of British aid to India every year when the country can afford such costly space programmes.

The mission to Mars was announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Independence Day speech in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Sending British aid overseas has become a sensitive issue in the context of recession, deep funding cuts and major job losses as the David Cameron government deals with a large budget deficit. However, the budget for British aid overseas has not been reduced, prompting demands from several MPs and sections of the public to stop sending aid to increasingly prosperous countries like India.

An example of the sensation-driven tabloid reporting is a report in today's Daily Express, which again raised the wisdom of sending aid to India, with the far-fetched headline, 'We pay for India's rocket to Mars'.

The tabloid reported that anger had "erupted" last night after India announced plans for the Mars mission, and quoted two MPs demanding immediate end to aid for India.

The Cameron government has committed itself to sending 280 million pounds every year to India until 2015. The Daily Express quoted ruling Conservative MP Philip Davies as saying: "This is a perfect illustration of why it is absolutely ridiculous for us to be giving nearly 300 million pounds a year in aid to India.

"If they can afford to have some high-tech mission to Mars they can afford to look after their own people without British taxpayers having to put their hands in their pockets for money they haven't got."

The same report quoted a spokesperson of the Department of International Development as saying that "British aid is not used to fund India's space programme."

But the report went on to quote Paul Nuttall, member of the European Parliament from the UK Independence Party, as saying: "It is utterly galling that our Government begs for India to accept hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money in aid. The Indians don't want it, the Indians don't need it.

"If India's future is a mission to Mars, our future should be to find more suitable recipients for our aid, maybe our own people."

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said: "We won't be in India forever, we are walking the final mile. The Indian government has made great progress on tackling poverty but there is still huge need."

at the same time, see how this pig beg in India.....

David Cameron delivers address at Infosys Bangalore: Full Text
July 28, 2010

The Tata Group is now the largest manufacturing employer in Britain. And more than 180 Indian companies have invested in our IT sector.

Indian companies employ 90,000 people in the UK. Many more jobs in Britain exist thanks to the activities of British companies in India. Now I want to see thousands more jobs created in Britain, and of course in India through trade in the months and years ahead. That is the core purpose of my visit."

David Cameron delivers address at Infosys Bangalore: Full Text | NDTV.com

 

[faithfulguy]

@faithful ... it should be america and all her citizens that should be thankful to India... If its not for India, nobody would have searched for America ... poor Columbus ferried for India

Actually, the Spanish wanted to break the Venetian-Ottoman monopoly spice trade. Columbus thought that he reached the East Indies. So he called the people there Indians. America is created way after people realized that America is a totally different continent.

brother , i know yours as well mine history . the thing in which i find ourselves better placed than you guys is we are yet to be westernised in masses in terms of population .your country is completely sold out and mine is on the way ....why make guns and fire ...when the blood is same .Peace !

America is a western country. And who's blood is the same? Can you elaborate?

 

[Meluhan]

The world is a much better place with America. If its not for American, you Indians would not be able to boast about the owning P8I, the most advance anti-sub plane out there. Also, America created an exception for India to build nukes and removed the sanctions. India should be grateful for America.

I don`t support a world and economy made up on WAR ,DRUGS,PROSTITUTION,SUPRESSION ...america should be thankful to indians and chinese who are running there economy as high skill and low skill labors in MASS.

 

[skydrill_2]

@faithful ... it should be america and all her citizens that should be thankful to India... If its not for India, nobody would have searched for America ... poor Columbus ferried for India

haha this is the best ever answer to trolls!!

 

[skydrill_2]

columbus was searching for a spice route to spice kingdom in kerala,india and hit the shores of north america and called the inhabitants indians!! seriously,what a jerk he was!!

 

[IND151]

aid receipents are some ngos in India,not GOI. and as our FM said we dont need aid and UK can stop it. its UK which is not stoping aid.

 

[Hello_10]

India’s Transition to Global Donor: Limitations and Prospects (ARI)

India

Theme: India has increasingly sought to expand its activities as a donor, both to reposition itself as an emerging power and to use aid as an instrument for engaging with other developing countries. This ARI looks at the current state of India’s donor programme as regards both its size and scope, identifies India’s role within the multilateral aid scenario and evaluates the challenges and prospects for further growth.

Abstract: India has expanded its aid programme over the past decade, emerging as a serious donor in certain countries. While the amounts remain small, India’s emergence has focused attention on its possible motives.

The term ‘emerging donor’ has, over the past decade, become an accepted part of the development world’s lexicon, providing further evidence of the rise of emerging economies. This does not mean that the donors themselves are new. What is new is an increased recognition globally that emerging donors are now a viable complement, and in some cases a substitute, to aid from traditional donors.

The emergence of these donors is particularly evident now because it occurs at a time when the developed world faces fundamental questions about its own socio-economic model. The financial crisis has undermined confidence amongst OECD countries, put their aid commitments in doubt and given rise to questions about their social welfare and free market models. It is into this vacuum that India has willingly stepped in to offer its own philosophy of development and growth.

Disbursements by emerging donors were estimated at €8.5 billion in 2006.[1] While small (aid by OECD donors in 2006 totalled €103.9 billion),[2] the competition that these donors insert into what was once an oligopoly of high-income OECD nations has caused much consternation in development circles: China’s aid programme has prompted both awe and fear;[3] India’s stirs a mix of confusion and frustration abroad and pride and criticism at home.

India started its aid programme soon after independence, with the budget speech of 1958 referring to INR100 million in multi-year grants to Nepal and an INR200 million loan to Myanmar.[4] Since then, but particularly over the past decade, India’s aid programme has evolved substantially, growing both in scale and ambition.

This paper analyses the evolution of India’s giving in recent years. However, rather than simply describing what India gives and to whom, it primarily looks at three related questions: (1) what are the main characteristics that distinguish India’s aid?; (2) as India grows into a global donor, how is it likely to view multilateral engagement?; and (3) against the backdrop of almost certain growth in giving in the future, what are the challenges and options ahead?

Analysis

Defining India’s Giving

At the outset it is worth establishing what constitutes aid in the context of India’s donor programme. Like most emerging donors, India’s aid-related activities do not follow the traditional definition of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Rather, an alternative definition can be considered: spending that furthers India’s standing as a donor. There are three parts to that spending, namely grants and preferential bilateral loans to governments, contributions to international organisations (IOs) and financial institutions (IFIs), and subsidies for preferential bilateral loans provided through the Export Import (EXIM) Bank of India.

In 2010 India’s aid-related budget allocations were INR36.66 billion[6] (US$785 million in current dollars), a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.9% from 2004 to 2010. In addition, the EXIM bank in 2008 approved loans and guarantees worth INR352.47 billion with US$3.75 billion in operative lines of credit (see Table 2 and Graph 1).

These numbers, while big, cannot compare with the giving of China or any of the established donors (China is estimated to have donated US$616 million in 2007 to Africa alone).[7] Thus, India’s ability to use its aid well depend not on how much it gives, but rather on how it directs its aid and what else it offers.

Towards this end the country’s multilateral budget has increased rapidly. In 2008 and 2009 India spent INR30,719.4 and INR67,630 million respectively (US$2.1 billion) towards increasing its IMF share quota (IMF investment accounted for 66% of the entire budget in 2009). India has also been an enthusiastic donor to the World Food Programme (WFP).

Secondly, these deficiencies expose India to the entire risk of aid giving, in particular allegations of neo-colonialism (a criticism often directed at OECD donors) or of undermining human rights (a criticism directed at China). Any move to expand direct aid should thus be made with caution.

Conclusions: There is no doubt that recent changes to India’s aid programme mirror a more general re-think of India’s role in the world. Responding to increasing ambitions the programme has evolved to be more global, economic and bilateral. India has sought to engage more closely with the multilateral system, while creating its own niche within the development universe by remaining distinct from other donors.

China has often used aid to facilitate access to natural resources. India’s approach, by contrast, is described by Kragelund[15] as being ‘on a smaller scale, a bit tardier and not spurring the same dichotomous reactions’. It can be argued that this has prevented India’s giving from realising its full strategic potential. However, that smaller scale and tardiness have also prevented India from tripping up on its own good intentions in what is still an early period of its programme.

The risk is that as India increases its giving it may try to achieve too many things –political pre-eminence in its vicinity, economic links with East Africa and access to strategic resources (natural or military) in Burma or West Africa–. As that happens, India will expose itself to the same criticisms levelled against China and against traditional donors –a risk amplified by India’s institutional limitations that hinder transparency and accountability–. In short, India’s ambitions will continue to outstrip available resources and capabilities.

Those limited resources should therefore be used as much to gain direct leverage as to promote India’s private and non-profit sectors in the developing world. Collaboration with other donors can happen, so long as it promotes those general principles. What is needed is a more conscious, transparent and cohesive approach to develop this strategy, rather than the current opportunistic one, because these sectors have always been India’s strengths.

Dweep Chanana
Advisor to private and institutional philanthropists with a Swiss private bank

India

Indian aid to different countries is much more than what people talk in open. like few I could search as below and many other references:

India gifts embassy to Palestine, pledge $20 million aid

India gifts embassy to Palestine, pledge $20 million aid - Thaindian News

India to build Afghanistan’s parliament complex

India has placed $1.2 billion for reconstruction activities in Afghanistan.

India to build Afghanistan’s parliament complex - Thaindian News

Indian PM pledges $500m in aid to Afghanistan

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/05/2011512174743325321.html


India's pledge to rebuild Afghanistan has reached a total of $2 billion in May 2011 after Manmohan Singh arrived to Kabul for a two day visit.[27]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–India_relations#Administrations_of_Karzai_and_Singh

Scholarships for African Students in India 2009

Scholarships for African Students in India 2009 : 2012 2013 College Scholarships, PhD Scholarships, Postdoctoral, Graduate International Scholarships Fellowships

India offers $100 million to help Sri Lanka refugees

India offers $100 million to help Sri Lanka refugees | Reuters

In the last week of April, India announced a us $5.4 billion credit to African countries for developing their infrastructure and meeting other development goals. This five year package also included duty free imports from 50 Least Developed Countries, of which 34 are in Africa. The government also announced a grant of us $500 million to African countries and doubled the number of fellowships given to students from African and Asian countries.

Largesse with agenda | India Environment Portal

India to give Bangladesh $1bn line of credit

Taking the current bonhomie with the Sheikh Hasina government to a new level, PM Manmohan Singh on Monday announced a $1 billion line of credit for Bangladesh, the highest one-time line of credit assistance to any country by India.

India to give Bangladesh $1bn line of credit - Times Of India

India commits $500 million aid for West Africa

India commits $500 million aid for West Africa

India Gives $5-billion Aid to Africa
May 25, 2011

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pm-announces-five-billion-dollars-aid-for-africa/1/139212.html

 

[harpoon]

aid receipents are some ngos in India,not GOI. and as our FM said we dont need aid and UK can stop it. its UK which is not stoping aid.

Bcs they need the NGOs to further their interests in India and the NGOs will regularly feed cooked up stories of Indian poverty & malnutrition so that the West never stops this aid.

 

[cirr]

India's Mars mission is a puff of hot air。

It is NOT going to happen in 2013 or in 2023.

So what's the big fuss？