The US Embassy has said that from the financial year 2014 to 2024 “USAID/India did not get or provided the voter voting in India, nor has it implemented any voter polling-related activities in India, the Center has told the Rajya Sabha.
The government on Thursday asked CPI (M) MP John Britis in a written response for a query, “United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds suggested the use of the use of the work done by it on reports suggesting the use of the use of the use of the use of the Fund”.
In his response, Foreign Minister Kirti Vidhan Singh said, on February 28, the Ministry of External Affairs (Mea) requested the US Embassy in New Delhi that it has been implemented in the last ten years under the “immediately presented details” under seven partnership agreements with the government).
Mea also sought a list of implementing non -government organizations or partners, through which such initiatives were executed.
On July 2, the US embassy shared the data that “it covered USAID funding in India from 2014 to 2024”, which included the details of implementing partners, objectives and key achievements of each activity, said.
In its response, the MOS further stated, “The embassy also said that ‘USAID/India did not fund or provide $ 21 million for voter voting in India from the financial year 2014 to 2024, nor has it implemented any voter-related activities in India.”
On 29 July, the US embassy told Mea that it plans to bring all the USAID operations to a close “by 15 August 2025,” the Center told the Rajya Sabha.
The minister said that on August 11, the US embassy in New Delhi, in a letter to the Department of Economic Affairs, stated that all the seven partnership agreements signed with the Government of India would be effective from 15 August 2025 “, the minister said.
Singh said in his response, while the review of USAID operations continued in the United States, on February 16, 2025, the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the cancellation of USD486 million for USAD funding for USAD funding, which includes the USAD486 million canceled for USAD funding, including the strengthening projects (CEPPS). ,
Effective from 1 July, the operation of USAID officially closed. About 83 percent of its programs were abolished, and 94 percent of its employees were discontinued. The state department took responsibility for the remaining 17 percent of the operation and foreign aid administration of USAID, Singh said.
He said, “The full shutdown of USAID is going to be completed by September 2, 2025.”
Britis also asked whether the government has received details of expenditure on all USAID projects in India in the last three years, sought through the US Embassy.
Singh said in his response, “The beneficiary of the allocation of USAID allocation provided to the ministry for three years is placed in Annexure-A, as sought by the honorable member of Parliament, as sought by the honorable member of Parliament.
In March this year, Britis asked a similar question in the Rajya Sabha related to USAID.
