The U.K. Parliament’s International Development Committee says it supports the government’s decision to provide assistance to India until 2015 but argues that the U.K.’s relationship with the Asian country needs to “fundamentally change” after the said period.
In a report published Tuesday (June 14), the committee urged the Department for International Development to begin developing an exit strategy, the Guardian reports.
The report also outlined suggestions on where the United Kingdom should focus its assistance to India until 2015: sanitation programs, anti-malnutrition drives and efforts to address social exclusion.
The United Kingdom plans to spend 280 million pounds ($448 million) annually in India until 2015. U.K. Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell said two-thirds of this annual aid budget will be used for projects in three of India’s poorest states, namely Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.
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