{"id":301744,"date":"2018-08-22T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301744"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:41:28","slug":"india-politely-turns-down-international-financial-assistance-for-flood-hit-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-politely-turns-down-international-financial-assistance-for-flood-hit-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"India politely turns down international financial assistance for flood-hit Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301688 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-696x474.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-1068x727.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport-617x420.jpg 617w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-airport.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/>In view of the whole world coming together and offering financial aid for the Kerala flood victims, the Indian Government directed all its respective envoys to all Indian missions abroad to politely turn down the financial assistance from the foreign countries saying that the government has decided to &#8220;rely solely on domestic efforts&#8221; to combat the challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Early indications point towards requirements that are within the capacity of the people and Government of India to meet,&#8221; the envoys have been asked to convey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government has decided to stick to its long standing policy of not accepting monetary help from foreign countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The UAE and Maldives government have offered financial assistance to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As you know, as a general policy in case of rescue and relief operations we have followed the practice that we have adequate ability to respond to emergency requirements. And, for a variety of reasons we have not in the past too, unless there are specific circumstances, been able to accept offers of assistance for rescue and relief,&#8221; Syed Akbaruddin, the then Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson clarified.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the whole world coming together and offering financial aid for the Kerala flood victims, the Indian Government directed all its respective envoys to all Indian missions abroad to politely turn down the financial assistance from the foreign countries saying that the government has decided to &#8220;rely solely on domestic efforts&#8221; to combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4357,466,4356,469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301745,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301744\/revisions\/301745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}