Cancellation of registrations of 1000+ NGOs in AP is a welcome move
The Foreign Contribution (Regulatory) Act (FCRA) provides a mechanism for Organizations to receive foreign funds for various activities which are broadly classified into Educational, Religious, Economic, Social and so forth.
Although both Government and Non-Government Organizations can register themselves with the Ministry of Home Affairs so as to be eligible to receive foreign funds, the FCRA landscape is overwhelmingly dominated by NGOs. Among these, a huge chunk of NGOs receives FCRA funding for purely religious purposes. In our estimate, around 40 per cent of the funding each year is received by Organizations which declare themselves as Religious.
However, a very large number of NGOs which declare themselves as working on social causes may actually be receiving funds from foreign organizations which are motivated by a religious cause. As illustrative examples, one can see the following FC6 returns: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
This article examines a recent order by the FCRA Wing of Foreigners Division in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The order can be accessed here.
Out of the 42,000 Organizations which have been registered under FCRA, more than 10,000 had not filed the mandatory financial returns (called FC-6 form) for the years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12, as on October 1, 2014. This is inexplicable given that the law mandates that the NGO file the return, even if it did not receive any foreign funds in a particular year.
Thus, the FCRA Wing issued notices to all these Organizations in the first week of October 2014 and asked them to provide reasons as to why their registrations should not be cancelled. The erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh (comprised currently of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) had the largest number of non-filing Organizations: 1441.
Following this, the FCRA Wing released a Cancellation order, dated 3 March, 2015 which mentions that letters to 510 Organizations returned back to the sender: undelivered. Six hundred and thirty two Organizations presumably received the letter from MHA, but preferred not to reply within the stipulated time.
The MHA further states that two hundred and ninety nine organizations have replied and these are being studied further. The FCRA Wing issued Cancellation orders for the 1142 Organizations of Andhra Pradesh who were in clear violation of the Law, for the past several years.
Our observations:
- The cancellation order with details of all the cancelled Organizations of Andhra Pradesh was posted on the website of FCRA, likely on 13 March, 2015. This act of the Ministry to communicate directly with the citizens of India, without giving an (unjustified) preference to established information middle-men/women (so-called mainstream media)is singularly commendable. The news was carried by a few newspapers on their 14 March, 2015 editions. However, it was possible for social media to become aware of this development much earlier, thanks to MHA’s thoughtful action.
- This cancellation order pertains to NGOs in Andhra Pradesh alone. Thus, one can expect to see similar orders for NGOs in other States in the days to come.
- The following question may be pondered over: if an NGO did not file the FC-6 return for 2009-10 within the stipulated period (say, in the year 2010, ideally), why are we even discussing this matter in early 2015? Who in their right mind would have thought that the services of the non-compliant NGO were deemed to be necessary for the populace of India?
- The predominant nature of money coming via FCRA into our nation has been adequately demonstrated on IndiaFacts and on my blog. Thus, it requires no reiteration. Our analyses have been confined to those 21,000+ NGOs which have filed FC-6 returns each year. Much of the money coming in has been for Evangelical and anti-developmental purposes. It is a sobering thought that if such a long-term damage to our society can be caused by NGOs who diligently file annual returns, what to make of the work (dark matter) that the non-filing NGOs were involved in? A known Unknown, certainly, to paraphrase Don Rumsfeld.
- The Union Government, Ministers, Officers and others of the FCRA Wing need to be appreciated for their diligent work, sticking clearly to the rule book. They now have an unenviable task ahead to handle the’ Known Known’.
This will definitely help to eradicate identity crisis and build
a nation with full of pride and honour.
I am happy to hear this. It is high time the Evangelical corrupt and fraudulent design is busted. 4/5 years ago a professor from the South was explaining to me that in Andhra and Tamilnadu people were converting in thousands, including the Brahmins.He was very sad and rueful.
Communism is a monstrous murder arm, worse than Nazis could ever be of VATICAN. These hidden christian monsters have never touched a Christian/Catholic country EXCEPT Eastern Orthodox as VATICunt BASTARDS are opposed to it. Their work is to destroy the Spiritual cultures and soften them for Christian Barbarism to take its place. Note how China has the fastest growth in Infernal God’s false religion
The Italian Rabid christian monster sonia and her gutter pigs the commie and media whorehouses are the GREATEST THREATS AND HAVE TO BE FACED FROM ROADS TO COURTS TO PARLIAMENT 10 eyes for an eye 10 heads for an head. The media whoreshouses and Bollywood sluts and gigolos liek that christian pig Vishal Bhardwaj, Karan Johar (and his homosexual beau Kamal Khan) and the sluts like Deepika Padukone and Ravina Tandon who will lay on streets to have orgies with 85 year old filthy smelly sexrats if they are white and make blue films of their mothers, sisters and daughters are now lecturing we Hindus on FREE EXPRESSION. Why their christian asses get shut when a boy is arrested in Bareilly for posting some truths about AZAM KHAN. Were these media sluts like Burkha Datta, John Dayal and PORNO Roy in bedding their mothers/daughters when the Italian christian bitch sonia Jailed a person for calling this TADAKA as Shurpnakha, were these pigs who are funded by the filthiest of money from Italian ORGAN-DRUG-BLUE FILM-CHILD PEDOPHILE-PROSTITUTION-CIA-OPUS DEI-VATICAN-ISIL-BOKO HARAM-AL QAIDA getting their mothers, sisters and daughters sold by ISIL thugs when this Italian Controller of filthiest of money was forcing Google, Facebook etc censor social media, lest their white skinned Goddess whose shit they love to eat is put to some trouble.
Now these so called Animal Lovers are opposed to ban on cow slaughter, while protecting being voluble for rights of rabid maddogs (who are the fathers of mediasluts and Bollywood gigolos and sluts) and pigs (their mothers).
Nice……finally a news of a victory ,even if it be small.Let us have a much larger movement to finally rid our holy land of the MANY GODS of these cockroaches.
The Hindus have to start all India movement to destroy this fraudulent Abrahamic epidemic. The greatest danger here is inculturation
200 families defrauded by an NGO in Italy http://matteo-equilibrio1.blogspot.com/2014/11/self-help-building-scandal-we-need-help.html
great
The list contains quite a few Hindu NGOs as well…
That is fine… please don’t get too choosy about personal religious choices here…… Legality must be ensured before morality comes in …First step is to be ETHICAL and to be on the right side of LAW….. if All laws are complied , then comes the purpose and money trail tracking and this is where missionaries will get exposed. If you are so concerned, please spend your efforts to educate the Hindu organizations ( if they are genuine) to comply to LAW by providing some good chartered accountants and lawyers who can work for FREE even part time to educate the genuine ones…We need to publish names of the organizations and church affiliations … e.g. Baptists, Pentecost, and so on so that people understand clearly which church believers are defrauding more…. At least the catholic organizations that were on right side of Law will welcome this move to restrict evangelicals
They also should be banned if they are fraudulent.
Poor Christian convert,i feel bad for you.
Excellent article. As this route of fundng is blocked, they are now using media – print and electronic. The next step is to focus on the money trail of those organisations. Your single minded dedication to this cause has borne fruit. Carry on the good work. #Respect
The cancellation order is just a beginning. In India at the grass roots level many of these will still carry on with connivance of local support. There needs to be a storng process which ensures that these organizations are shut down. Also there are 10,000 who have not filed returns – so why have the registrations been cancelled only for a 1000? All 10,000 need to be subjected to the same treatment!!