New Delhi : India slashed its budgetary allocation for creating Iran’s Chabahar port within the price range for 2026-27 to zero within the face of US sanctions and the outlay for improvement tasks in Bangladesh was halved to ₹60 crore, reflecting the present strains in ties between the 2 sides.
Bhutan, an in depth improvement accomplice, once more garnered the biggest share of the federal government’s exterior help portfolio, with an outlay of ₹2,288 crore, in accordance with price range paperwork. This was marginally greater than the allocation of ₹2,150 crore within the price range for 2025-26.
The exterior affairs ministry was allotted ₹22,119 crore, barely greater than its outlay of ₹20,517 crore in 2025-26.
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The abroad improvement portfolio of ₹6,998 crore accounted for nearly a 3rd of the ministry’s price range, and marked a slight improve during the last 12 months’s allocation of ₹6,750 crore.
The allocation for Chabahar port, which was revised from ₹100 crore to ₹400 crore for 2025-26, was reduce to nil for 2026-27.
A six-month exemption from US sanctions relevant to Chabahar port granted by the Trump administration in 2025 is legitimate solely until April.
For Bangladesh, the event partnership outlay was reduce from ₹120 crore for 2025-26 to ₹60 crore in 2026-27. India-Bangladesh ties have witnessed a downward spiral beneath the interim authorities in Dhaka, with New Delhi seeking to reset the relations following Bangladesh’s normal election on February 12.
The allocations for different nations included ₹800 crore for Nepal, ₹550 crore for Maldives, ₹550 crore for Mauritius, ₹400 crore for Sri Lanka, ₹225 crore for African nations and ₹120 crore for Latin American nations, amongst others.
