Meanwhile, in news from 12 months ago:
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The UK is to end financial aid to India by 2015, international development secretary Justine Greening has said.
Support worth about £200m ($319m) will be phased out between now and 2015 and the UK's focus will then shift to offering technical assistance.
Ms Greening said the move, which will be popular with Tory MPs, reflected India's economic progress and status.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583
I assume at least some of those who will welcome this (old) news, will at least accept that in withdrawing aid, the UK has to give sufficient notice to those organisations, and Indian government departments, that may already have planned and budgeted for it, and that 2015 is a reasonable deadline for that.
Also, from the same article:
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India spends £70bn on its social welfare budget, compared with £2.2bn on defence and £780m on space exploration.
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So it's not as if they're sitting back and letting us handle their entire welfare and development bill for them.
The Coalition took the correct decision last year.