{"id":31554,"date":"2018-10-27T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31554"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:10:37","slug":"nepal-gets-a-high-rs-650-crore-outlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nepal-gets-a-high-rs-650-crore-outlay\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal gets a high Rs. 650 crore outlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/nepal-gets-a-high-rs-650-crore-outlay\/article22626993.ece\">Nepal gets a high Rs. 650 crore outlay<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s annual financial allocation under the Union Budget<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Neighbourhood First\u2019 policy <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For India\u2019s development and diplomatic engagement under the \u2018Neighbourhood First\u2019 policy, the Budget has allocated Rs. 5545 crore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Traditionally Bhutan gets highest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bhutan is traditionally the largest recipient of Ministry\u2019s allocation.<\/li>\n<li>It has maintained the same position even as the allocation increased by Rs. 71 crore to touch Rs. 2,650 crore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More for Myanmar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Rs. 280 crore, Myanmar\u2019s allocation too has improved from Rs. 220 crore of last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nepal gets the highest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>However, the giant leap in allocation was for Nepal, which received Rs. 650 crore from the Ministry<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s allocation is the third consecutive and the largest increase.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016-17, Nepal received Rs. 332.72 crore, which was increased to Rs. 375 crore last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rehabilitation work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The budgetary increase was a likely step ahead from the Indian commitment to help Nepal recover from the 2015 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terai road network<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Terai road network and railway connectivity plans were also likely to get a part of the increased allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal gets a high Rs. 650 crore outlay Context India\u2019s annual financial allocation under the Union Budget \u2018Neighbourhood First\u2019 policy For India\u2019s development and diplomatic engagement under the \u2018Neighbourhood First\u2019 policy, the Budget has allocated Rs. 5545 crore. Traditionally Bhutan gets highest Bhutan is traditionally the largest recipient of Ministry\u2019s allocation. It has maintained the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nepal-gets-a-high-rs-650-crore-outlay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nepal gets a high Rs. 650 crore outlay<\/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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704578014},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31554","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=31554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}