We gave £1billion aid to India as they built £330million statue: UK

[Chakar The Great]

• Britain gave more than £1billion to India as it was built the world's tallest statue
• The Statue of Unity is almost twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in the US
• The 597ft giant bronze monument has been condemned as a vanity project

Britain donated more than £1billion to India in the years when it was lavishing a fortune on building the world’s tallest statue, figures show.

The colossal bronze memorial – almost twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York – was immediately condemned as an expensive vanity project when it was unveiled on Wednesday.

In the 56 months it took to construct the £330million Statue of Unity, UK taxpayers gave India £1.17billion in foreign aid, according to official figures.

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi attended the statue’s opening ceremony amid great fanfare. It stands on a bend of the Narmada river in Gujarat, Mr Modi’s home state.

He was chief minister of Gujarat when the vast statue was commissioned.

The engineering project started in 2012, when British taxpayers donated almost £300million to India.

In 2013 a further £268million was given, in 2014 the figure was £278million and in 2015 it was £185million, followed by smaller amounts after that.

As the cash rolled in from Britain, the Indian authorities poured billions of rupees into building the 597ft tall bronze likeness of Sardar Patel, one of the heroes of India’s independence movement.

Last night Tory MP Peter Bone said: ‘To take £1.1billion in aid from us and then at the same time spend £330million on a statue is a total nonsense and it is the sort of thing that drives people mad.

‘What it proves is that we should not be giving money to India. It is up to them how they spend their money but if they can afford this statue, then it is clearly a country we should not need to be giving aid to.’

The British aid money was spent on projects ranging from improving women’s rights to funding solar panels and investment in low-carbon transport. Some £14,000 of the cash was spent in Gujarat in 2014, when the statue’s foundations were being laid, to ‘increase religious tolerance among young people’.


Source: Dailymail UK

 

[Valar.]

And I thought India doesn't take any aid.
Guess i was wrong.

 

[Mighty Lion]

India is not even among the top 20 recipients of British aid:

 

[Skull and Bones]

The economic impact of a world class university or a world class medical facility far exceeds the statue in question. The proposed Shivaji statue of Mumbai can still be economically viable as a tourist attraction spot, I don't see many people going to Statue of Unity, 60 km from Vadodara.

 

[Chakar The Great]

India is not even among the top 20 recipients of British aid:

The article claims they gave you 1Billion Pounds aid. You are giving us a chart here starting from 463m, are you drunk or just being another indian here?

 

[Handshake]

Fake news# india given 400 billion Aid to Britains. Hidden sopa dopa powa .

 

[Srinivas]

Bitch cry!

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

b c fake newz

 

[Mighty Lion]

The article claims they gave you 1Billion Pounds aid. You are giving us a chart here starting from 463m, are you drunk or just being another indian here?

Lol.
Did you even read your own article.
£1.1 billion was given totally between 2012-15 that is four years combined.
But by 2016 annual aid fell to less than £100 million.
In 2018 it will be only £50 million

 

[Windjammer]

India is not even among the top 20 recipients of British aid:

The point is India is a recipient of British Aid and they are pointing fingers at you for abusing the money.

 

[Chakar The Great]

Lol.
Did you even read your own article.
£1.1 billion was given totally between 2012-15 that is four years combined.
But by 2016 annual aid fell to less than £100 million.
In 2018 it will be only £50 million

Thats true , I missed that.

 

[Mighty Lion]

The point is India is a recipient of British Aid and they are pointing fingers at you for abusing the money.

Same crowd Also points fingers at Pakistan the largest recipeint for abusing the money:

https://asianlite.com/news/uk-news/uk-aids-top-recipient-pakistan-spends-21-of-gdp-for-defence/

 

[ranjeet]

Lol, they are still crying about the aid? Why don't they stop the aid and crying for good.

 

[Windjammer]

Same crowd Also points fingers at Pakistan the largest recipeint for abusing the money:

https://asianlite.com/news/uk-news/uk-aids-top-recipient-pakistan-spends-21-of-gdp-for-defence/

Too desperate to save yourself.....Daily Mail is a British tabloid unlike something called Asia Age. LOL,

 

[INDIAISM]

The article claims they gave you 1Billion Pounds aid. You are giving us a chart here starting from 463m, are you drunk or just being another indian here?

That is the reason you should read the article before posting your comment....

The engineering project started in 2012, when British taxpayers donated almost £300million to India.

In 2013 a further £268million was given, in 2014 the figure was £278million and in 2015 it was £185million, followed by smaller amounts after that.