India has allocated Rs 200 crore for Afghanistan in the general budget 2023. This amount will be spent on ongoing Indian projects in Afghanistan and humanitarian help will also be given to the troubled country. The Taliban has welcomed this and said that relations with India will be stronger.
India Of general budget There is discussion all over the world. Generally, the global headline is made on the budget of India and especially the Indian budget is appreciated in the world. in this thread Afghanistan The caretaker Taliban regime has also welcomed India’s budget. India has allocated $25 million in aid to Afghanistan, which will help boost development in the neighboring country.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the last full budget of Modi 2.0 in Parliament on 2 February. The government has planned to spend Rs 45 lakh crore in the next financial year 2023-24. India has allocated Rs 200 crore for the neighboring country. This is the second time after the Taliban takeover that India has allocated such a huge amount for Afghanistan. Earlier, special allocations were made for Afghanistan in the last budget as well.
Relations between the two countries will improve – Taliban
Welcoming the Indian budget, Suhail Shaheen, who was a member of the Taliban’s negotiations team, said that we welcome the Indian allocation for development in Afghanistan. This will help in further strengthening the relationship between the two countries. India’s relations with Afghanistan have been affected after the Taliban takeover, and aid to the neighboring country was also suspended. Although the condition of common citizens in Afghanistan is worse and they are facing all kinds of problems.
India’s funding in several projects in Afghanistan
The Taliban leader said that there were many such projects in Afghanistan which India was funding. India has taken a big step by starting these projects and this will strengthen the relations between the two countries. The recent general budget of India is special in many ways, because the Lok Sabha elections are going to be held in the country next year. The Finance Minister has termed this budget as ‘Saptarishi’.
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