Centre Pulls Funding Plug off 524 Kerala NGOs

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[TD]In the last round of crackdown, licences of nearly 9,000 NGOs were cancelled in April last for alleged violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). .In another round of action against erring NGOs, the government has cancelled the licence of 4,470 such entities. Now another 1440. So called legitimate ngos got about 11000 crores in one year. How they spent it needs investigation. One loop hole in the rule - one ngo can transfer foreign donation to another will open lot of interesting transactions and how the money was used. Modi govt moves slow and steady.

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12/06/2015

KOCHI: A total of 524 organisations from the state figure in the list of 4,476 entities whose licences to receive foreign funds were cancelled by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) over the past one week. Andhra Pradesh tops the list with about 1,440 institutions.

The list includes some of the prominent institutions in Kerala including Mahatma Gandhi University, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kerala Regional Family Development Centre, Union Christian College, Aluva, CMS College, Kottayam, Vimala College, Thrissur and St. Georges’ College, Aruvithura. Institutions run by various churches leads the table in both the national and the state-level.

The licenses of these institutions have been cancelled for reasons ranging from non-filing of returns to non-compliance with Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).

Other prominent organisations in the list include, Madhavan Nayar Foundation (Ernakulam), Yogakshema Trust, Himayathul Muslimeen Trust, The Highrange Rural Development Society, Kattappana, Muslim Ladies Association, Indian Pentecostal Church of God, Alleppey, Peoples Dairy Development Project Society, Vlathankara Industrial Cooperative Society, Valiya Palli Muslim Jamaat, Kozhikode and Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of Thiruvalla, Parassala and Kollam. All associations were given proper notice by the Foreigners Division of the Home Ministry with adequate time to reply before their FCRA licences were cancelled.

“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,” said an official notification.

As per Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act and the 2010 Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules 2011, associations registered under FCRA 2010 are required to submit annual report in Form FC-6, accompanied by an income and expenditure statement, receipt and payment account, balance sheet etc for every financial year beginning on the April 1.[/TD]
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http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=19631&SKIN=K

 

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Updates on the Government’s FCRA-NGO cancellations

All ngos which get foreign funding and are engaged in covert and overt antinational, conversion, and anti progress activities must be identified and punished. The govt is on the right track, till now.

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Timeline of events

Oct 1, 2014: MHA serves notices to all FCRA NGOs giving a time frame to reply, file returns etc. A majority of these NGOs did not reply to the notice. Equally, several letters returned back to the MHA the grounds of “Addressee not found.” Replies which were received are being examined.

Mar 3, 2015: FCRA registrations of 1143 FCRA NGOs of (undivided) Andhra Pradesh were cancelled as (i) they didn’t reply and/or (ii) Addressee not found.

Mar 13, 2015: List of cancelled FCRA NGOs is published on the MHA website as a PDF file.

Mar 16, 2015: The IndiaFacts story on the cancellation of license to NGOs in (undivided) Andhra Pradesh. The story also predicted that cancellations in other states were likely to happen for the same reason.

Mar 28, 2015: Names of the cancelled FCRA NGOs of Andhra Pradesh are published in the MHA website’s database.

Apr 27, 2015: Mainstream media story on the cancellation of the registration of 8975 FCRA NGOs in states other than Andhra Pradesh lists names of FCRA NGOs that are unknown.

May 20, 2015: FCRA NGOs researcher on Twitter, @sighbaboo tweets here that the names of cancelled FCRA NGOs (out of the 8975) are being published on the MHA database, state by state.

June 10, 2015: Mainstream media reports stories on the cancellation of 4476 registrations including several universities, government organizations, etc. There is some confusion in the public space whether this 4476 number is over and above the 8975 FCRA NGO cancellations. However, it is not. Our investigation revealed that the mainstream media was likely to have been handed a write-up by the MHA summarizing the cancelation updates so far. The mainstream media merely prints it.

Our investigation revealed that the 4476 FCRA NGOs form part of the 8975 number. The names of these 4476 FCRA NGOs are known. Names of the remainder FCRA NGOs will be released in due course.

§ The IndiaFacts analyses and reports (as well as specialists in this area like @sighbaboo) on FCRA NGOs are based on the FCRA NGOs which were filing annual returns according to procedure. The total inflow via these “law-abiding” FCRA-NGOs is in excess of Rs.11000 Crore annually. This sum is equal to twice ISRO’s annual budget. Thus, the cancellation of FCRA registrations of the non-filing FCRA NGOs will not change this amount.

§ Now we must ask the key question: what were the FCRA NGOs whose licenses have now been cancelled, actually doing? Based on our investigation, we can hazard a guess: they may have been doing subcontract work for the law-abiding FCRA-NGOs. Given that foreign money can be transferred (beyond 10 per cent, a loophole) from one FCRA-NGO to another FCRA-NGO only (and not to an NGO which does not have FCRA registration), these cancelled FCRA-NGOs may have been doing subcontract work on behalf of law-abiding FCRA-NGOs. This subcontract typically involved harvesting Hindu souls, which gives the law-abiding FCRA-NGOs plausible deniability since they can claim that they are not in the harvesting business directly.

http://indiafacts.co.in/updates-on-the-governments-fcra-ngo-cancellations/

 

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Nice that Indian government is finally cracking down on foreign money coming into India - most of which are not well intentioned.