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UK may cut foreign aid to ‘rich’ India

Britain may scale down the 250 million-pound aid given to India annually.

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Britain may scale down the 250 million-pound aid given to India annually,saying wealthy local people could do more to help their poor countrymen.

Andrew Mitchell,the International Development Secretary,signalled that the “250 million pounds of public money spent annually in nuclear armed India could be scaled back.”

He said the rich NRI population of Britain could do more to help their countrymen.

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Besides,the 40 million pounds spent by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Vietnam,now regarded as an Asian “tiger” economy,will be axed.

It follows the disclosure that development funding to China and Russia would be withdrawn.

Mitchell told The Sunday Times: “India is more complex and more difficult than China. But this is a (aid) programme I am looking at in detail.

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