INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00287R001300300001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 20, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287R001300300001-6
CONFIDENTIAL
20 January 1984
MEMORANDUM: George Carner
ASIA/BI/I
Agency for International Development
Chief, Subcontinent Branch
South Asia Division, NESA
1. Data on recent Indian economic assistance to countries
in South and Southeast Asia, which you requested, are shown in
2. Indian official data do not show any support for
Afghanistan since 1978. However, some grant aid for Afghanistan
may be included in the budget for technical and economic
cooperation. Country allocations of expenditure on technical and
economic cooperation are not published. The total amount of such
aid for all countries was $3.1 million in FY 1981, $2.4 million
in FY 1982, and $4.8 million in FY 1983. An increase to $7.1
million was planned for FY 1984.
3. Press reports note that 29 Indian technicials were
working in Afghanistan in 1982: 16 doctors and para-medical
staff at a chil.'ren's hospital in Kabul, 5 experts at a
hydroelectric power project, one expert at an industrial estate,
and others working in government ministries.
4. Indian officials said that 28 Indian experts, financed
by the Indian government, were working in Afghanistan in mid-
1982, most of them at the Institute for Child Health. India had 25X1
agreed to a slight increase, probably several doctors. The total
value of Indian technical assistance was less than $100,000.
Attachment:
As stated
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287R001300300001-6
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287R001300300001-6
UNCLASSIFIED
INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Burma
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
1980-81
Authorizations
Total
0.19
48.0
18.0*
12.6
17.1
Loans
-
8.6
-
12.6
17.1
Grants
0.19
39.4
18.0
-
-
1981-82
Authorizations
Total
0. 4
53.2
17.6*
11.2
Loans
-
10.7
1982-83
Revised Budget Estimate
Total
23.6
50.3
0.1
27.9
10.2
8.4
Loans
21.9
0.1
0.1
10.2
8.4
Grants
1.7
50.3
27.7
-
1983-84
Budget Estimate
Total
2.4
45.0
0.5
23.8
6.3
6.5
Loans
2.0
-
0.5
1.0
6.3
6.5
Grants
0.4
45.0
-
22.8
-
-
* Excludes training of Nepalese scholars in India and projects executed by Bihar state government.
UNCLASSIFIED
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287R001300300001-6
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287RO01300300001-6
CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT: Indian Economic Assistance
Distribution:
Original -
1 -
1 -
Addressee
C/SO/D/NESA
C/SO/S/NESA
1 - VSO/S/NESA
2 - NESA Production Staff
4 - OCO/IMD/CB
1 - Chrono
DDI/NESA/SO/S (20 Jan 84)
CONFIDENTIAL
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287RO01300300001-6
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287RO01300300001-6
Iq
Next 2 Page(s) In Document Denied
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/10: CIA-RDP85T00287RO01300300001-6