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Britain faces mounting pressure to end Indian aid
Sunday December 02, 2012 08:59:52 AM,
IANS
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London: British
government is facing renewed pressure to halt its aid to India at
the earliest after latest figures showed the latter's economy is
set to grow by 6.5 percent next year and 7.2 the year after.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening has already
announced Britain's 280 million pounds (over $448 million) annual
handout to India would end in 2015.
It followed an outcry that British taxpayers' cash was being
lavished on an increasingly well-off country with its own space
programme and nuclear weapons, Daily Express reported Saturday.
The latest projections of India's GDP growth, by investment bank
Goldman Sachs, prompted calls for the aid programme to be stopped
forthwith.
Robert Oxley of the TaxPayers Alliance said: "Justine Greening
rightly ended Britain's aid programme to India, but, given its
economic performance, those projects should be brought to an end
now, not in 2015. It is totally unacceptable."
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