{"id":104677,"date":"2021-05-03T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=104677"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T06:05:27","slug":"foreign-aid-to-india-centre-faces-questions-over-its-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/foreign-aid-to-india-centre-faces-questions-over-its-use\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Foreign Aid to India&#8221; &#8211; Centre faces Questions Over its Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Indian Government is at present accepting gifts, donations, and aid from foreign nations. This is because, India is facing a massive shortage of oxygen, drugs and related equipment amid a surge in Covid cases.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Foreign Aid to India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>India is accepting foreign aid for the first time in 16 years. State Governments are also free to procure life-saving devices and medicines from foreign agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, India accepted aid from foreign governments several times. It includes the Uttarkashi earthquake (1991), Latur earthquake (1993), Gujarat earthquake (2001), Bengal cyclone (2002) and Bihar floods (July 2004).<\/li>\n<li>However, the policy changed 16 years ago. India refused to accept foreign aid after the Kashmir earthquake in 2005. It also didn&#8217;t accept foreign aid after the Uttarakhand floods in 2013, Kashmir floods in 2014 and Kerala Floods in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Process:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian government is asking all foreign governments and agencies to donate through the <a href=\"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/red-cross-plans-log-of-recovered-patients\/\">Indian Red Cross Society<\/a> to the Ministry of Health.<\/li>\n<li>It is being coordinated by an Empowered Group of Ministers and officials. They will then send it to the states based upon the requests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What is the issue?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Countries have raised questions over the lack of a website or transparent system on the Central Government&#8217;s use of foreign aid.<\/li>\n<li>They are asking the Government of India to provide information about the deployment and use of these materials after their transfer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GJH8HVNRT.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Indian Government is at present accepting gifts, donations, and aid from foreign nations. This is because, India is facing a massive shortage of oxygen, drugs and related equipment amid a surge in Covid cases. Foreign Aid to India: India is accepting foreign aid for the first time in 16 years.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/foreign-aid-to-india-centre-faces-questions-over-its-use\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Foreign Aid to India&#8221; &#8211; Centre faces Questions Over its Use<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1760,9],"tags":[1446],"class_list":["post-104677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-disas_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":14,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699083759},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}