Government countered the claim made by Trump by pointing out that India’s investments in Afghanistan were on a much more massive scale than Trump believed.

Boomlive News: Dams, transmission lines, the parliament building, roads, training assistance for security forces: These are some of the projects India has completed as part of its $3-billion commitment to Afghanistan over 17 years to 2018.
While defending his move to slash US investments overseas, US President Donald Trump on January 2, 2019, mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan. The government countered this by pointing out that India’s investments in Afghanistan were on a much more massive scale than Trump believed.
Here’s all you need to know about India’s development assistance to Afghanistan:
Over the last four years, 2014-15 to 2017-18, India has given Rs 2,217 crore ($344 million) as development assistance to Afghanistan, a government reply to the Rajya Sabha (parliament’s upper house) said on August 9, 2018. The government further informed the house that since 2014, seven projects had been completed and 12 are ongoing.
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