India Gives over Rs 21,100 crore as Help to Neighbours in Last 4 years
Answering a question on the details of the chief ministers that have visited China in the last three years, Home Minister said there have been eight visits by chief ministers to China during the period.
These are Andhra Pradesh’s Chandrababu Naidu who visited in April 2015 and again in June 2016, Gujarat’s Anandiben Patel visited in (May 2015, then Maharashtra’s Devendra Fadnavis also in May 2015.
Next it was Telangana’s K Chandrashekhar Rao in September 2015 followed by Haryana’s Manohar Lal Khattar in January 2016, Chhatisgarh’s Raman Singh in April 2016 and Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan in June 2016.
Giving information on the total developmental assistance provided to six countries in the neighbourhood in the last four years amounted to Rs 21,101.52 crore.
India’s developmental assistance to six neighbouring countries in South Asia over the last four fiscal years amounted to over Rs 21,100 crore, the government today informed the Rajya Sabha.
India extended developmental assistance to six neighbouring countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh’s written reply to a question.
The total aid to Afghanistan from 2014-15 to 2017-18 was Rs 2,232.94 crore, to Bangladesh it was Rs 514.13 crore, and to Bhutan it was Rs 15,680.97 crore.
The developmental assistance to Maldives during the same period was Rs 270.39 crore, to Nepal it was Rs 1,322.54 crore, and to Sri Lanka it was Rs 1,080.55 crore.
The total developmental assistance to the six countries in the four years amounted to Rs 21,101.52 crore.
