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Odisha NGO Consultancy Services

Thursday, November 24, 2016

FCRA's Empathy for 11,319 NGOs

About 11,000 NGOs had not applied for renewal of FCRA registration by 30-Jun-16 in online form FC-3. Their FCRA registration has lapsed on 31-Oct-16. They cannot accept any foreign contribution after this date.

FCRA Department has now extended the deadline for filing renewal application. These 11,319 NGOs can visit fcraonline.gov.in and apply online for renewal.

Reasons for not applying in time should be provided in writing. The letter giving these reasons should be scanned and uploaded with the application. If your old returns have been filed, and the reasons for lapse are genuine, the Department will likely renew your registration.

Last date for submitting form FC-3 for renewal is 28-February-2017.

However these 11,319 NGOs can still not accept any foreign contribution till their registration is actually renewed.

Only NGOs named in the list can use this facility. Presumably other pending cases (out of 1736 closed cases) cannot