Centre tightens noose around NGOs flouting foreign funding norms
4 Sep 2014 11:01 PM GMT
The union home ministry is desperate to locate the missing foreign contributions (FC) worth about Rs 15,000 crore made to several NGOs active in India in the last six years and has already started a covert operation by freezing the bank accounts of three such organisations operating from southern part of India.
It was learnt that during the course of investigation it was found that there is a section of NGOs which is working against various projects in order to obstruct the economic growth of the country.
Ironically, the new government also stumbled upon the fact that no concrete initiatives have been taken by the previous government to keep a check on these anti-government activities orchestrated by a section of the NGOs.
Informed sources said, recently following the adverse reports received about some of the NGOs, which include Tuticorin Diocesan Association, Centre for Promotion and Social Concern and East Coast Research and Development Trust, the union government has cancelled their FC registration and seized their bank accounts.
As per regular process, NGOs and trusts receive FCs and MHA monitors receipt of FC and maintains a detailed record about where the fund was received and who received it and for what purpose the fund was donated.
But in these cases it was found that the fund received from the foreign contributors were diverted for some other purpose, violating the FCRA. ‘We have also got access to evidences, which suggest that these NGOs are actually involved in anti-Indian activities.
We have got names of at least 50 more such NGOs in India who are involved in similar activities and we are soon going to take a stern action against them,’ ministry sources said.
He said, ‘Since, it is a lengthy process to ascertain the dubious activities of such NGOs and trusts, we are not in hurry to launch a massive crackdown. It will be a continuous process and already we have started by freezing the bank accounts of these NGOs working from the southern parts of India.’
It was learnt that during the course of investigation it was found that there is a section of NGOs which is working against various projects in order to obstruct the economic growth of the country.
Ironically, the new government also stumbled upon the fact that no concrete initiatives have been taken by the previous government to keep a check on these anti-government activities orchestrated by a section of the NGOs.
Informed sources said, recently following the adverse reports received about some of the NGOs, which include Tuticorin Diocesan Association, Centre for Promotion and Social Concern and East Coast Research and Development Trust, the union government has cancelled their FC registration and seized their bank accounts.
As per regular process, NGOs and trusts receive FCs and MHA monitors receipt of FC and maintains a detailed record about where the fund was received and who received it and for what purpose the fund was donated.
But in these cases it was found that the fund received from the foreign contributors were diverted for some other purpose, violating the FCRA. ‘We have also got access to evidences, which suggest that these NGOs are actually involved in anti-Indian activities.
We have got names of at least 50 more such NGOs in India who are involved in similar activities and we are soon going to take a stern action against them,’ ministry sources said.
He said, ‘Since, it is a lengthy process to ascertain the dubious activities of such NGOs and trusts, we are not in hurry to launch a massive crackdown. It will be a continuous process and already we have started by freezing the bank accounts of these NGOs working from the southern parts of India.’
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