{"id":341790,"date":"2023-02-02T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=341790"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:43:11","slug":"allocation-for-aid-to-foreign-countries-cut-by-2-6-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/allocation-for-aid-to-foreign-countries-cut-by-2-6-in-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation for aid to foreign countries cut by 2.6% in Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"472\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nirmala.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Nirmala.jpg 750w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Nirmala-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Nirmala-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Nirmala-667x420.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India has cut the overall allocation for aid to foreign countries from Rs 6, 005 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 5, 848 crore in the forthcoming fiscal of 2023-24, a reduction of 2.6 per cent in the union budget for 2023-2024, which was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the countries whose allocation has been reduced under this head include Bhutan, Afghanistan and Mauritius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, budget allocation for Bangladesh, Nepal, crisis-hit Sri Lanka, Mongolia and that of Eurasian, African and Latin American countries, have been hiked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allocation for Bhutan has been reduced from Rs 2, 500 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 2, 400 crore in 2023-24, for Afghanistan it has been reduced from Rs 350 crore to Rs 200 crore and for Mauritius it has been cut from Rs 575 crore to Rs 460 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the government has increased the allocation for Bangladesh from Rs 170 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 200 crore in 2023-24, for Nepal from Rs 425 crore to Rs 550 crore, for Sri Lanka from Rs 75 crore to 150 crore, for Mongolia from Rs 2.50 crore to Rs 7 crore, while African nations&#8217; allocation has been hiked from Rs 160 crore to Rs 250 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Eurasian nations, it has been increased from Rs 65 crore to Rs 75 crore and for Latin American nations, the allocation has been hiked from Rs 7 crore to Rs 50 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These allocations basically pertain to aid for cultural and heritage projects as well as for disaster relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has cut the overall allocation for aid to foreign countries from Rs 6, 005 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 5, 848 crore in the forthcoming fiscal of 2023-24, a reduction of 2.6 per cent in the union budget for 2023-2024, which was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. Some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":341791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16057,15957,16055,15750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341793,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790\/revisions\/341793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/341791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}