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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;UK Prime Minister David Cameron may scale down the &amp;pound;250 million British aid given to India annually, saying wealthy local residents could do more to help their poor countrymen.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has signalled that the &amp;ldquo;&amp;pound;250 million of public money spent annually on nuclear-armed India could be scaled back&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;He said the rich NRI population of Britain could do more to help people back home.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The &amp;pound;40 million spent by the department for international development (DFID) in Vietnam, now regarded as an Asian &amp;ldquo;tiger&amp;rdquo; economy-wise, will also be cut.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;This follows the disclosure that development funding to China and Russia would be withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mitchell told The Sunday Times: &amp;ldquo;India is more complex and more difficult than China. But this is a (aid) programme I am looking at in detail.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Last month, Britain, shocked by reports of massive swindling in India in millions of pounds granted as aid for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, said there would be &amp;ldquo;zero tolerance to corruption&amp;rdquo; and launched an &amp;ldquo;immediate inquiry&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Jo Johnson, a Conservative MP and brother of London mayor Boris Johnson, wrote in The Financial Times: &amp;ldquo;India can now fund its own development needs, considerable though they are in a country with 450 million poor. It has a defence budget of $31.5 billion, plans for a prestige- boosting moon-shot and a substantial foreign aid programme of its own&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;UK Prime Minister David Cameron may scale down the &amp;pound;250 million British aid given to India annually, saying wealthy local residents could do more to help their poor countrymen.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has signalled that the &amp;ldquo;&amp;pound;250 million of public money spent annually on nuclear-armed India could be scaled back&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mitchell told The Sunday Times: &amp;ldquo;India is more complex and more difficult than China. But this is a (aid) programme I am looking at in detail.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/font&gt;
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">UK Prime Minister David Cameron may scale down the &pound;250 million British aid given to India annually, saying wealthy local residents could do more to help their poor countrymen.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has signalled that the &ldquo;&pound;250 million of public money spent annually on nuclear-armed India could be scaled back&rdquo;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">He said the rich NRI population of Britain could do more to help people back home.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The &pound;40 million spent by the department for international development (DFID) in Vietnam, now regarded as an Asian &ldquo;tiger&rdquo; economy-wise, will also be cut.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">This follows the disclosure that development funding to China and Russia would be withdrawn.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Mitchell told The Sunday Times: &ldquo;India is more complex and more difficult than China. But this is a (aid) programme I am looking at in detail.&rdquo;</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">He defended the government&rsquo;s decision to ring-fence overseas aid while most other departments face savage cuts.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Last month, Britain, shocked by reports of massive swindling in India in millions of pounds granted as aid for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, said there would be &ldquo;zero tolerance to corruption&rdquo; and launched an &ldquo;immediate inquiry&rdquo;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;These are shocking allegations. I have launched an immediate inquiry to ensure British aid money has not been misused. The new British government will have a zero tolerance policy to corruption,&rdquo; he had said.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;When I took up this job.... I made a pledge to British taxpayers; they must know that for every pound of their money, we will get 100 pence of value.&rdquo;</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Cutting foreign aid to countries such as India was the most important suggestion by voters to chancellor George Osborne, who launched a website called Treasury&rsquo;s Spending Challenge to ask people for ideas on where the funding cuts axe should fall.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">As hundreds of suggestions poured in, the most popular was for international development funding to bear some of the brunt.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Jo Johnson, a Conservative MP and brother of London mayor Boris Johnson, wrote in The Financial Times: &ldquo;India can now fund its own development needs, considerable though they are in a country with 450 million poor. It has a defence budget of $31.5 billion, plans for a prestige- boosting moon-shot and a substantial foreign aid programme of its own&rdquo;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">He added: &ldquo;India is not China; but as a claimant to a permanent Security Council seat and a place at the top table of world affairs, it is also no longer a natural aid recipient.&rdquo;</font>
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India aid from UK faces cut

UK Prime Minister David Cameron may scale down the £250 million British aid given to India annually, saying wealthy local residents could do more to help their poor countrymen. Cameron is under pressure to reduce foreign assistance to India. International development secretary Andrew Mitchell has signalled that the “£250 million of public money spent annually on nuclear-armed India could be scaled back”. He said the rich NRI population of Britain could do more to help people back home. The £40 million spent by the department for international development (DFID) in Vietnam, now regarded as an Asian “tiger” economy-wise, will also be cut. This 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.” He defended the government’s decision to ring-fence overseas aid while most other departments face savage cuts. Last month, Britain, shocked by reports of massive swindling in India in millions of pounds granted as aid for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, said there would be “zero tolerance to corruption” and launched an “immediate inquiry”. Mitchell had then said that the allegations reported from India about widespread corruption in the use of British aid were “shocking”. “These are shocking allegations. I have launched an immediate inquiry to ensure British aid money has not been misused. The new British government will have a zero tolerance policy to corruption,” he had said. “When I took up this job.... I made a pledge to British taxpayers; they must know that for every pound of their money, we will get 100 pence of value.” Cutting foreign aid to countries such as India was the most important suggestion by voters to chancellor George Osborne, who launched a website called Treasury’s Spending Challenge to ask people for ideas on where the funding cuts axe should fall. As hundreds of suggestions poured in, the most popular was for international development funding to bear some of the brunt. Jo Johnson, a Conservative MP and brother of London mayor Boris Johnson, wrote in The Financial Times: “India can now fund its own development needs, considerable though they are in a country with 450 million poor. It has a defence budget of $31.5 billion, plans for a prestige- boosting moon-shot and a substantial foreign aid programme of its own”. He added: “India is not China; but as a claimant to a permanent Security Council seat and a place at the top table of world affairs, it is also no longer a natural aid recipient.” Johnson wrote that nowhere was the need to bring the India-UK relationship up to date more obvious than in the area of aid. “The moral arguments might be finely balanced, but common sense suggests it is a better idea for the UK to prioritise aid to countries that cannot afford to fund their development over those that take the money because it is going free.”