More than 10,000 NGOs receiving foreign funding in the country have come under the scanner of the Union home ministry after they have failed to submit their mandatory annual returns for three years at a stretch between 2009 and 2012.
The MHA’s rap to the NGOs has come after it scrutinised records of all NGOs receiving foreign donations in the country and found their annual returns are missing. Soon after the Narendra Modi government came to power in May, a classified Intelligence Bureau report had reportedly complained of “anti-development’’ activities of several foreign funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs), saying they were “negatively impacting economic development’’ by agitating against big infrastructure projects.
The MHA has now issued notices to as many as 10,331 foreign funded NGOs across states, including 400 in the national capital itself, saying their registration will be cancelled for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation
Act (FCRA) if their annual returns are not filed with the central government within the stipulated timeframe.
The MHA wants details of their income, expenditure, balance sheets among other document clearly showing the source of foreign wealth and the activities for which it has been put to use.
Showing the rulebook to the NGOs, the MHA in a strong missive has said that apart from the NGOs which are receiving foreign funds on an annual basis, those associations which did not receive foreign contribution during a particular year, but are registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), are also required to furnish a “NIL return’’ for that financial year within the stipulated time frame.
It has categorically said that non-submission of mandatory annual return is in violation of the FCRA 2010 and FCRR 2011.
“On scrutiny of records, it has been found that the mandatory annual returns for the years 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 have not been received from the associations. Notices are being sent to these associations by post at their known addresses,” the MHA has said in its notice.
The list of erring foreign-funded NGOs includes the highest 1,441 NGOs in Andhra Pradesh, 1,167 in Uttar Pradesh, 1,108 in Tamil Nadu, 990 in Maharashtra, 821 in Karnataka, 748 in West Bengal, 655 in Bihar, 643 in Orissa, 538 in Kerala, 400 in Delhi, 378 in Gujarat, 38 in Jammu and Kashmir and 130 in Assam among others .
Source: http://www.asianage.com/india/1000-foreign-funded-ngos-under-scanner-440
The MHA’s rap to the NGOs has come after it scrutinised records of all NGOs receiving foreign donations in the country and found their annual returns are missing. Soon after the Narendra Modi government came to power in May, a classified Intelligence Bureau report had reportedly complained of “anti-development’’ activities of several foreign funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs), saying they were “negatively impacting economic development’’ by agitating against big infrastructure projects.
The MHA has now issued notices to as many as 10,331 foreign funded NGOs across states, including 400 in the national capital itself, saying their registration will be cancelled for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation
Act (FCRA) if their annual returns are not filed with the central government within the stipulated timeframe.
The MHA wants details of their income, expenditure, balance sheets among other document clearly showing the source of foreign wealth and the activities for which it has been put to use.
Showing the rulebook to the NGOs, the MHA in a strong missive has said that apart from the NGOs which are receiving foreign funds on an annual basis, those associations which did not receive foreign contribution during a particular year, but are registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), are also required to furnish a “NIL return’’ for that financial year within the stipulated time frame.
It has categorically said that non-submission of mandatory annual return is in violation of the FCRA 2010 and FCRR 2011.
“On scrutiny of records, it has been found that the mandatory annual returns for the years 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 have not been received from the associations. Notices are being sent to these associations by post at their known addresses,” the MHA has said in its notice.
The list of erring foreign-funded NGOs includes the highest 1,441 NGOs in Andhra Pradesh, 1,167 in Uttar Pradesh, 1,108 in Tamil Nadu, 990 in Maharashtra, 821 in Karnataka, 748 in West Bengal, 655 in Bihar, 643 in Orissa, 538 in Kerala, 400 in Delhi, 378 in Gujarat, 38 in Jammu and Kashmir and 130 in Assam among others .
Source: http://www.asianage.com/india/1000-foreign-funded-ngos-under-scanner-440
