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I find this party crazy: Britain is set to boost aid to India by 70 per cent, it has emerged, just days after the country launched a rocket into space. The For
by spants 3y ago
I find this party crazy:
Britain is set to boost aid to India by 70 per cent, it has emerged, just days after the country launched a rocket into space.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which distributes aid, sent India £33.4 million in aid cash in 2022/23.
But the FCDO’s annual report, published this week, reveals that the total is set to rise to £57 million in 2024/25.
This will be topped up by an as-yet-unknown amount from the business department, which usually gives more than £10 million.
Why send aid to a country with a space program?
- rinka_singh 3y agoThe amount is really measly (a couple of million GBP per year). I came across this calculation that ISRO earned something like 330M GBP over the past 9 years from it's 3rd party satellite launches. This is a question we Indians have been asking too. We also don't see the need for this in the first place.
- bibin765 3y agoBritain is just trying to give back what they had taken
- spants 3y agoprobably more like greasing wheels to enable business
- jwestbury 3y agoHaving a space program isn't incompatible with needing aid. You can definitely make arguments about where money is being invested, of course. But you can also make arguments that Britain probably owes India a lot more than the current aid levels, so I think there's some real nuance here that probably isn't captured by HN comments.
- hiyer 3y agoBritain doesn't give aid to the Indian government. It gives aid to various NGOs that work there.