NEW DELHI: The cancelling of FCRA registration of Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, for alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010, has left several university officials scratching their heads.
There are concerns, of course, about how (if at all) this will impact fellowships offered by sundry foreign foundations to students, grants for international seminars and programmes and the MoUs each has signed with foreign universities. But the question trumping them all is whether DU and JNU are covered by FCRA at all.
Officials from both institutions point to an MHA document that states, "In terms of Gazette Notification S.O. 1492(E) dated 01.07.2011, all statutory bodies constituted or established by or under a central Act or state Act requiring to have their accounts compulsorily audited by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India are exempted from all the provisions of FCRA 2010."
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Foreign-funds-order-stumps-varsities/articleshow/47650293.cms
There are concerns, of course, about how (if at all) this will impact fellowships offered by sundry foreign foundations to students, grants for international seminars and programmes and the MoUs each has signed with foreign universities. But the question trumping them all is whether DU and JNU are covered by FCRA at all.
Officials from both institutions point to an MHA document that states, "In terms of Gazette Notification S.O. 1492(E) dated 01.07.2011, all statutory bodies constituted or established by or under a central Act or state Act requiring to have their accounts compulsorily audited by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India are exempted from all the provisions of FCRA 2010."
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Foreign-funds-order-stumps-varsities/articleshow/47650293.cms
