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Friday, March 18, 2016

Licenses of 14,000 organisations cancelled under FCRA

New Delhi, Mar 15 (PTI) Licenses of over 14,000 associations have been cancelled by the government in last six financial years for violating provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), Parliament was informed today.

"Instances of some non-government organisations violating provisions of the FCRA and Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules have come to government's notice. Since, implementation of FCRA, 2010 and FCRR, 2011, notices were issued to around 21,000 associations in 2011 and to 10,343 associations in 2014 for not filing annual returns continuously for three years.

"Consequently, registration of 4,138 associations was cancelled in July 2012 and 10,117 in March, 2015 after issue of show cause notices to such associations and giving them adequate opportunity," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.

The data said a total of 14,255 instances were reported for cancellation between 2006-07 to 2011-12 fiscals.

He added in 2014, penalty amounting to Rs 51,99,526 on 24 associations and in the year 2015 an amount of Rs 80,11,010 on seven associations for compounding the offence of receipt and utilisation of foreign contribution without obtaining registration on prior permission under the FCRA, 2010 was imposed.

He said the complaints and inputs with regard to these violations were received by the government from various sources including security agencies and action against such violation is taken after conducting inspection of the records and accounts and giving due opportunity to the concerned association or NGO.