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We appreciate UK aid: India
With the increased fury in UK over aid to India, New Delhi on Monday said it’s always appreciative of foreign aid. Playing down the media reports in UK seeking stoppage of aid to India on the basis of a reported Rajya Sabha proceedings last year, India said it has always been appreciative of foreign assistance.
“The expanse of our need is such that foreign assistance provided is very small portion of it,” a senior Government official said.
“There are niche areas where we require assistance and we have always been appreciative of efforts to provide that assistance,” he said.
The official was responding to reports in the UK’s Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had stated in the Rajya Sabha last August that India did not need British aid which, according to him, was “peanuts”. “We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development exercises (expenditure).”
With the increased fury in UK over aid to India, New Delhi on Monday said it’s always appreciative of foreign aid. Playing down the media reports in UK seeking stoppage of aid to India on the basis of a reported Rajya Sabha proceedings last year, India said it has always been appreciative of foreign assistance.
“The expanse of our need is such that foreign assistance provided is very small portion of it,” a senior Government official said.
“There are niche areas where we require assistance and we have always been appreciative of efforts to provide that assistance,” he said.
The official was responding to reports in the UK’s Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had stated in the Rajya Sabha last August that India did not need British aid which, according to him, was “peanuts”. “We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development exercises (expenditure).”
