Over 400 million people in India live below the internationally agreed poverty line (living on less than US $1 per day). This is one in three of the world?s poorest. Reducing poverty in India is ...

India is the biggest single recipient of British aid, with £1 billion spent between 2003 and 2008 through the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). This article, written for ...

KOLKATA: Annual grants from the Department for International Development DFID) of the British Government to West Bengal will reach Rs 500 crore in the next three to five years, head of DFID India ...

These factors weighed in when DfiD took the decision to continue with the aid to India. In February, UK International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said he was convinced India needed aid.

These targets, a spokesperson at the DFID India headquarters in Delhi told TNN, would be set in course of its current programmes. “Most projects in West Bengal are curently in the design and ...

DFID is committed to working with the poorest people in India, and Bihar surely competes for the bottom of the league table. We already provide £12 million in support every year through centrally ...

Supporters of British aid say that India still contains about a third of the world’s poor, with 450 million people living on less than 80p a day. DFID says its programmes — which are now ...

New head of the Department for International Development (DFID) office in India Gavin McGillivray met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here on Wednesday.

The DFID has timed its new ?country plan? for India aligning with the 11 th Five Year Plan cycle beginning 2007. ? We have planned to launch the new plan during spring 2008,? said the DFID official.

India will continue to receive substantial aid, but it will be frozen. The continuation of this programme is justified by DfID as there are more poor people in India than in any other country in ...