Lok Sabha Question No. 1698 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-11
Subject: Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Raja Amareshwara Naik, Jayanta Kumar Roy, Vinod Kumar Sonkar, Bhola Singh, Rajveer (Raju Bhaiya) Singh, Sukanta Majumdar, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1698 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2022

## INDIAN TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION

## 1698. SHRI RAJA AMARESHWARA NAIK:

DR. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY:

SHRI VINOD KUMAR SONKAR:

SHRI BHOLA SINGH:

SHRI RAJVEER SINGH (RAJU BHAIYA):

DR. SUKANTA MAJUMDAR:

SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEO:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  India   has   development   cooperation   programmes with other countries across various sectors and if so, the details thereof during the last three years country-wise;
- (b) whether India has been extending line of credit under Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme;
- (c) if   so,   the   details   thereof   during   the   last   three   years, country-wise, programme-wise;
- (d) whether   India   has   also   been   providing   cooperation   on humanitarian   grounds   to   other   countries   affected   by disasters;
- (e) if so, the details during the last three years; and
- (f) the steps taken/being taken by the Government for building international development cooperation?

ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

[SHRI V. MURALEEDHARAN]

(a)   Yes. India's international development cooperation programmes are an   important   component   of   our   engagement   with   friendly   foreign countries. These are funded through Lines of Credit (LOCs) or Grants-inAid, or in the form of capacity building assistance through ITEC training slots . Country-wise details of LOC's extended till date are provided at Annexure 1. Country wise details of grants extended in the past three years are provided at Annexure 2. Country wise details of ITEC training slots   are   provided   at Annexure   3. Further   details   of   development cooperation projects undertaken by this Ministry are available at: https://www.mea.gov.in/development-partnership.htm

(b) & (c)   Lines of Credit are not extended under the ITEC programme, which is the flagship programme for development assistance through capacity building .

(d) & (e) Details of Humanitarian assistance extended by India in the past three years are provided in Annexure 4 .

(f)  India's development cooperation is guided by the principles of SouthSouth   cooperation,   and   based   on   mutual   trust   and   solidarity .   India's development partnerships are guided by the development priorities of the recipient   countries,   and   ensures   to   build   as   much   local   capacity   and create as many local opportunities as possible. Some of the steps taken by   India   for   building   international   development   cooperation   include issuing of consolidated LOC guidelines (India Development and Economic Assistance Scheme (IDEAS)), setting up of a dedicated Project Preparation Facility   (PPF),   setting   up   of   a   dedicated   division   to   handle   heritage projects,   and   having   a   strong   record   of   being   a   first   responder   in humanitarian assistance/ disaster relief situations.

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## ANNEXURE 1

## COUNTRY-WISE DETAILS OF LOC'S EXTENDED TILL DATE

|   Sl No | Country                  |   Number of LoCs |   LoC Extended (in USD million) |
|---------|--------------------------|------------------|---------------------------------|
|       1 | Angola                   |                4 |                             185 |
|       2 | Benin                    |                3 |                              73 |
|       3 | Burkina Faso             |                3 |                              78 |
|       4 | Burundi                  |                4 |                             246 |
|       5 | Cameroon                 |                2 |                              80 |
|       6 | Central African Republic |                4 |                              96 |
|       7 | Chad                     |                3 |                              72 |
|       8 | Comoros                  |                2 |                              62 |
|       9 | Cote D' Ivoire           |                6 |                             208 |
|      10 | D.R. Congo               |               13 |                             718 |
|      11 | Djibouti                 |                4 |                              50 |
|      12 | Eritrea                  |                1 |                              20 |
|      13 | Ethiopia                 |                6 |                             705 |
|      14 | Gabon                    |                1 |                               4 |
|      15 | Gambia                   |                6 |                              84 |
|      16 | Ghana                    |               10 |                             390 |
|      17 | Guinea                   |                4 |                             246 |
|      18 | Guinea Bissau            |                1 |                              25 |
|      19 | Kenya                    |                5 |                             300 |
|      20 | Liberia                  |                1 |                             144 |
|      21 | Lesotho                  |                2 |                              10 |
|      22 | Madagascar               |                1 |                              25 |
|      23 | Malawi                   |                5 |                             396 |
|      24 | Mali                     |                9 |                             356 |
|      25 | Mauritania               |                1 |                              22 |
|      26 | Mauritius                |                6 |                             955 |
|      27 | Mozambique               |               14 |                             772 |
|      28 | Niger                    |                4 |                              97 |
|      29 | Nigeria                  |                5 |                             395 |
|      30 | R-Congo                  |                3 |                             215 |
|      31 | Rwanda                   |                8 |                             670 |
|      32 | Senegal                  |               14 |                             320 |
|      33 | Seychelles               |                4 |                             118 |

| 34   | Sierra Leone         |   5 | 168   |
|------|----------------------|-----|-------|
| 35   | Sudan                |   9 | 742   |
| 36   | Eswatini (Swaziland) |   4 | 177   |
| 37   | Tanzania             |   6 | 1,115 |
| 38   | Togo                 |   5 | 150   |
| 39   | ECOWAS               |   4 | 1,000 |
| 40   | Uganda               |   2 | 206   |
| 41   | Zambia               |   4 | 107   |
| 42   | Zimbabwe             |   5 | 468   |
| 43   | Bangladesh           |   4 | 7,862 |
| 44   | Cambodia             |   4 | 102   |
| 45   | Iran                 |   1 | 88    |
| 46   | Lao PDR              |   5 | 226   |
| 47   | Maldives             |   5 | 1,330 |
| 48   | Mongolia             |   3 | 1,256 |
| 49   | Myanmar              |  10 | 476   |
| 50   | Nepal                |   4 | 1,650 |
| 51   | Palestine            |   1 | 50    |
| 52   | Sri Lanka            |  11 | 2,129 |
| 53   | Syria                |   6 | 285   |
| 54   | Vietnam              |   8 | 692   |
| 55   | Belarus              |   1 | 56    |
| 56   | Kyrgyz Republic      |   1 | 200   |
| 57   | Russia               |   1 | 1,000 |
| 58   | Uzbekistan           |   2 | 488   |
| 59   | Bolivia              |   1 | 100   |
| 60   | Cuba                 |   6 | 248   |
| 61   | Guyana               |   9 | 117   |
| 62   | Honduras             |   2 | 53    |
| 63   | Jamaica              |   1 | 8     |
| 64   | Nicaragua            |   5 | 95    |
| 65   | Suriname             |  10 | 155   |
| 66   | Fiji                 |   2 | 56    |
| 67   | Papua New Guinea     |   1 | 100   |
|      | TOTAL                | 307 | 31089 |

## ANNEXURE 2

## COUNTRY WISE DETAILS OF GRANTS-IN-AID FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS

## Actual expenditure under various heads

(3605 -T echnical and Economic Co-operation with Other Countries)

| Country                    |   Actuals (2018- 19) |   Actuals (2019- 20) |   Actuals (2020- 21) |
|----------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| Bangladesh                 |               131.81 |               137.68 |               177.98 |
| Bhutan                     |              1985.88 |              2041.41 |              1558.52 |
| Nepal                      |               763.39 |              1198.26 |               879.1  |
| Sri Lanka                  |               168.78 |               201.09 |                44.81 |
| Maldives                   |               439.4  |               134.41 |               160.19 |
| Myanmar                    |               376.22 |               162.3  |               347.06 |
| Other Developing Countries |               124.99 |               138.23 |               117.13 |
| Disaster Relief            |                19.12 |                27.98 |                 6.87 |
| ITEC Programme             |               200.57 |               213.07 |                85.49 |
| SAARC Programme            |                 4.94 |                 1.53 |                 0.77 |
| African Countries          |               339.98 |               497.81 |               226.28 |
| Eurasian Countries         |                29.52 |                29.89 |                45.42 |
| Latin American Countries   |                10.02 |                12.16 |                11.77 |
| Afghanistan                |               469.98 |               408.12 |               348.82 |
| Mongolia                   |                 0.62 |                 0    |                 0.48 |
| Mauritius                  |               659.81 |              1100    |               652.06 |
| Seychelles                 |                99.8  |                24.5  |                90.29 |
| Indo-Pacific Cooperation   |                36.84 |                38.11 |                42.82 |

ANNEXURE 3 COUNTRY-WISE ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF ITEC SLOTS

|    | COUNTRY              | 2018-19 Slots Allotted   | 2019-20 Slots Allotted   | 2020-21 eITEC participations   |
|----|----------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------------|
|  1 | AFGHANISTAN          | 625                      | 500                      | 28                             |
|  2 | ALBANIA              |                          | 3                        |                                |
|  3 | ALGERIA              | 40                       | 40                       | 1                              |
|  4 | ANGOLA               | 30                       | 12                       |                                |
|  5 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  |                          | 16                       |                                |
|  6 | ARGENTINA            | 40                       | 40                       | 26                             |
|  7 | ARMENIA              | 40                       | 40                       | 5                              |
|  8 | AUSTRALIA            |                          | 1                        |                                |
|  9 | AZERBAIJAN           | 30                       | 30                       | 56                             |
| 10 | BAHRAIN              |                          | 2                        | 8                              |
| 11 | BANGLADESH           | 630                      | 600                      | 500                            |
| 12 | BELARUS              | 15                       | 15                       |                                |
| 13 | BELIZE               | 12                       | 12                       |                                |
| 14 | BENIN                | 20                       | 25                       | 8                              |
| 15 | BHUTAN               | 375                      | 325                      | 240                            |
| 16 | BOLIVIA              | 5                        | 10                       | 8                              |
| 17 | BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA | 8                        | 7                        |                                |
| 18 | BOTSWANA             | 180                      | 200                      | 10                             |
| 19 | BRAZIL               | 10                       | 10                       | 4                              |
| 20 | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM    |                          |                          | 14                             |
| 21 | BULGARIA             | 15                       | 15                       |                                |
| 22 | BURKINA FASO         | 20                       | 5                        |                                |
| 23 | BURUNDI              | 30                       | 40                       |                                |
| 24 | CAMBODIA             | 175                      | 200                      | 154                            |
| 25 | CAMEROON             | 32                       | 32                       |                                |
| 26 | CAPE VERDE           | 10                       | 17                       |                                |
| 27 | CHAD                 | 20                       |                          |                                |
| 28 | CHILE                | 25                       | 25                       | 15                             |
| 29 | COLOMBIA             | 90                       | 100                      | 23                             |

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|   30 | COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA     |   3 | 20   |    |
|------|------------------------------|-----|------|----|
|   31 | COMOROS                      |  25 | 15   |    |
|   32 | CONGO(REPUBLIC OF)           |  20 | 10   |    |
|   33 | COSTA RICA                   |  20 | 40   | 16 |
|   34 | COTE D'IVOIRE                | 100 | 100  | 1  |
|   35 | CROATIA                      |  14 | 20   | 12 |
|   36 | CUBA                         |  60 | 60   |    |
|   37 | CZECH REPUBLIC               |   3 |      |    |
|   38 | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO |  75 | 90   |    |
|   39 | DJIBOUTI                     |  10 |      |    |
|   40 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC           |   5 | 5    |    |
|   41 | ECUADOR                      |  30 | 106  | 12 |
|   42 | EGYPT                        | 200 | 200  | 5  |
|   43 | EL-SALVADOR                  |  30 | 10   | 4  |
|   44 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA            |   5 | 32   | 2  |
|   45 | ERITREA                      |  47 | 40   |    |
|   46 | ETHIOPIA                     | 400 | 406  | 31 |
|   47 | FIJI                         | 132 | 100  | 17 |
|   48 | GABON                        |  15 | 10   |    |
|   49 | GAMBIA                       |  50 | 60   | 1  |
|   50 | GEORGIA                      |  30 | 20   | 1  |
|   51 | GHANA                        | 150 | 150  | 6  |
|   52 | GRENADA                      |   5 | 15   |    |
|   53 | GUATEMALA                    |  35 | 40   | 13 |
|   54 | GUINEA                       |  30 | 40   |    |
|   55 | GUINEA-BISSAU                |  10 | 8    |    |
|   56 | GUYANA                       |  40 | 50   | 12 |
|   57 | HAITI                        |  25 | 15   |    |
|   58 | HONDURAS                     |  35 | 35   | 2  |
|   59 | HUNGARY                      |  10 | 3    | 2  |
|   60 | INDONESIA                    | 125 | 100  | 3  |
|   61 | IRAN                         |  35 | 30   | 8  |
|   62 | IRAQ                         | 175 | 200  | 10 |
|   63 | JAMAICA                      |  30 | 30   |    |
|   64 | JORDAN                       |  50 | 26   | 3  |
|   65 | KAZAKHSTAN                   |  70 | 75   |    |

|   66 | KENYA                                    | 270   | 240   | 193   |
|------|------------------------------------------|-------|-------|-------|
|   67 | KINGDOM OF ESWATINI (FORMERLY SWAZILAND) | 50    | 50    | 167   |
|   68 | KIRIBATI                                 | 20    | 3     |       |
|   69 | KYRGYZSTAN                               | 80    | 66    |       |
|   70 | LAOS                                     | 110   | 170   | 27    |
|   71 | LATVIA                                   | 8     | 4     | 1     |
|   72 | LEBANON                                  | 75    | 75    |       |
|   73 | LESOTHO                                  | 50    | 70    |       |
|   74 | LIBERIA                                  | 60    | 70    |       |
|   75 | LIBYA                                    | 10    |       |       |
|   76 | LITHUANIA                                | 15    | 6     |       |
|   77 | MADAGASCAR                               | 80    | 107   | 3     |
|   78 | MALAWI                                   | 130   | 150   |       |
|   79 | MALAYSIA                                 | 50    | 30    |       |
|   80 | MALDIVES                                 | 56    | 200   | 240   |
|   81 | MALI                                     | 60    | 70    |       |
|   82 | MARSHALL ISLANDS                         |       |       | 1     |
|   83 | MAURITIUS                                | 200   | 210   | 38    |
|   84 | MEXICO                                   | 20    | 35    | 12    |
|   85 | MOLDOVA                                  | 5     | 5     |       |
|   86 | MONGOLIA                                 | 150   | 200   | 33    |
|   87 | MONTENEGRO                               | 13    | 3     |       |
|   88 | MONTSERRAT                               | 1     | 5     |       |
|   89 | MOROCCO                                  | 40    | 150   | 59    |
|   90 | MOZAMBIQUE                               | 50    | 60    |       |
|   91 | MYANMAR                                  | 190   | 480   | 137   |
|   92 | NAMIBIA                                  | 125   | 125   |       |
|   93 | NAURU                                    | 3     | 3     |       |
|   94 | NEPAL                                    | 182   | 185   | 123   |
|   95 | NICARAGUA                                | 5     |       | 56    |
|   96 | NIGER                                    | 160   | 156   |       |
|   97 | NIGERIA                                  | 200   | 250   | 102   |
|   98 | OMAN                                     | 125   | 125   | 15    |
|   99 | PALAU                                    | 5     |       |       |
|  100 | PALESTINE                                | 150   | 168   | 43    |
|  101 | PANAMA                                   | 25    | 25    |       |
|  102 | PAPUA NEW                                | 13    | 10    | 9     |

|     | GUINEA                   |     |     |     |
|-----|--------------------------|-----|-----|-----|
| 103 | PARAGUAY                 | 5   |  10 |     |
| 104 | PERU                     | 50  |  60 | 41  |
| 105 | PHILIPPINES              | 90  |  65 | 17  |
| 106 | POLAND                   | 10  |   5 |     |
| 107 | QATAR                    |     |   2 |     |
| 108 | REPUBLIC OF SAO TOME     | 20  |   2 |     |
| 109 | ROMANIA                  | 7   |   5 | 6   |
| 110 | RUSSIA                   | 150 | 150 | 19  |
| 111 | RWANDA                   | 17  |  10 |     |
| 112 | SAMOA                    | 20  |  20 |     |
| 113 | SENEGAL                  | 25  |  28 |     |
| 114 | SERBIA                   | 10  |  15 |     |
| 115 | SEYCHELLES               | 90  |  90 | 5   |
| 116 | SIERRA LEONE             | 60  |  50 |     |
| 117 | SINGAPORE                |     |   2 |     |
| 118 | SLOVAK REPUBLIC          | 12  |  10 |     |
| 119 | SOLOMON ISLANDS          | 5   |   2 |     |
| 120 | SOMALIA                  | 12  |  15 | 26  |
| 121 | SOUTH AFRICA             | 70  |  50 | 2   |
| 122 | SOUTH SUDAN              | 200 | 240 | 31  |
| 123 | SRI LANKA                | 402 | 402 | 326 |
| 124 | ST. KITTS & NEVIS        | 5   |  10 | 9   |
| 125 | ST. LUCIA                | 15  |  10 |     |
| 126 | ST. VINCENT & GRENADINES |     |   5 |     |
| 127 | SUDAN                    | 200 | 270 | 36  |
| 128 | SURINAME                 | 40  |  42 | 4   |
| 129 | SYRIA                    | 90  |  90 |     |
| 130 | TAJIKISTAN               | 150 | 200 |     |
| 131 | TANZANIA                 | 460 | 450 | 3   |
| 132 | THAILAND                 | 46  |  40 | 95  |
| 133 | TOGO                     | 40  |  20 |     |
| 134 | TONGA                    | 5   |   2 | 1   |
| 135 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO        | 56  |  85 | 14  |
| 136 | TUNISIA                  | 115 | 100 | 19  |
| 137 | TURKEY                   | 20  |  25 |     |

| 138   | TURKMENISTAN   | 20     | 30 13          |
|-------|----------------|--------|----------------|
| 139   |                | 3      | TUVALU 10      |
| 140   | 125            | 125    | UGANDA         |
| 20    | 13             |        | 141 UKRAINE    |
| 142 5 | 5              | 3      | URUGUAY        |
| 130   | 140            | 28     | 143 UZBEKISTAN |
| 144 5 |                |        | VANUATU        |
| 30    | 30             | 16     | 145 VENEZUELA  |
| 131   |                | 260 60 | 146 VIETNAM    |
| 100   |                | 170 50 | 147 ZAMBIA     |
| 148   | 260            | 217 6  | ZIMBABWE       |
| Total | 10705          | 11554  | 3350           |

## (i) VACCINE SUPPLIES:

-  47 countries have received 107.15 lakh doses of vaccines on grant basis.
-  47 countries have received 198.7 lakh doses through COVAX facility.
-  26 countries have received a total of 357.9 lakh doses commerically contracted supplies.

(ii) Early Pandemic Response: Drugs ( HCQ, essential drugs including antibiotics, testing kits, covid-related protection gear), test-kits and protective gear worth approx Rs. 100 crore Provided and grant basis for a total of 82

## ANNEXURE 4

## HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE EXTENDED BY INDIA IN THE PAST 03 YEARS

| 2018-19   |            |                                                             |
|-----------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No      | Country    | Background                                                  |
| 1         | Bangladesh | Relief assistance worth Rs. 11.58 Cr.                       |
| 2         | Syria      | Supply of medicines worth Rs. 13.95 Cr.                     |
| 3         | Syria      | Supply of food items. Cost rs 16.29 Cr                      |
| 4         | Yemen      | Supply of medicines worth Rs. 10.3 Cr.                      |
| 2019-20   | 2019-20    | 2019-20                                                     |
| 1         | DPR Korea  | Supply of Anti-TB medicines worth USD 1 Million.            |
| 2         | DPR Korea  | Supply of humanitarian food assistance worth USD 1 Million. |
| 3         | China      | COVID aid worth Rs. 21.1 Million                            |
| 4         | Israel     | COVID aid worth Rs. 2.76 Million                            |
| 5         | Maldives   | COVID aid worth Rs. 3.74 Million                            |
| 6         | Iran       | COVID aid worth Rs. 2.78 Million                            |
| 7         | Italy      | COVID aid worth Rs. 0.9 Million                             |
| 8         | Bhutan     | COVID aid worth Rs. 0.8 Million                             |
| 9         | Bangladesh | COVID aid worth Rs. 0.25 Million                            |

## 2020-21

| countries (including 25 countries in Africa and 27 countries in Latin America). Apart from medical aid, India has also rendered technical assistance in the form of dispatching Rapid Response Teams (sent to Comoros, Mauritius, Kuwait and Maldives); setting up of SAARC information exchange platform ; and e-ITEC trainning programmes for delivering Covid -related training for healthcare professionals in SAARC countries                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| (iii) some of the other HA/DR responses:  40,000 litres of Malathion was supplied to Iran for pest control to assist in locust swarm attackes in 2020-21.  2000 MT of Rice was delivered to Madagascar & Comoros (1000 MT for each country) through naval ship as food assistance for the ongoing drought/ famine crisis.  Flood relief kits were sent to Cambodia, Vietnam and Fiji in the wake of extreme weather events like floods and typhoons.  6.18 MT vegetable seeds to Fiji for post-disaster reconstruction in agri- sector  Essential medicines to support health systems of countries like Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Sao Tome & Principe.  Supply of NCERT Textbooks to Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique and Malawi. |

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