World Bank Approves Four India Projects Worth over $800 million
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved four India projects worth over $800 million. The projects support a range of development initiatives – strengthening India’s social protection architecture, promoting nutrition-supportive agriculture for tribal households in Chhattisgarh, enhancing quality education in Nagaland and improving the safety and performance of existing dams across various states in India.

“The four projects will support India’s efforts to build back better by creating a sustainable and resilient economy. Development work today has an additional responsibility – to help poor and vulnerable families roll back the adverse impact that the pandemic has had on their lives,” said Junaid Ahmad, Country Director, World Bank India. “These projects will help many such families access better income opportunities, education, water supply and benefit from the expanded social protection schemes of the government.”