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Troop buildup putting pressure on govt spending

Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Wednesday troop mobilisation on the border with Pakistan was putting pressure on government spending but it had already been factored in the 2002-03 Budget.

"The troop mobilisation has been there since December. When we were preparing the Budget the troops were already mobilised. It's not a new situation. It has been factored in the Budget," Sinha told reporters.

"Naturally, it is," he said when asked whether the buildup was putting pressure on government spending plans.

Nuclear neighbours India and Pakistan have massed a million men along their borders in their latest row over contested Kashmir, since an attack on India's Parliament in December that New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based Islamic militants.

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