NGOs’ Foreign Funding – Home Ministry Notice

[sarang]

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It is an open secret that foreign money transfer through NGO route is potentially harmful to indian interests, and the illegal money is used for terrorism, conversion, buying property, stall development projects, support pressure groups in universities and politicians. Hope all this will be controlled in future. The NGOs have to register, get permission from reserve bank and home office before accepting foreign donations and submit tax returns. It is now possible to link all elated activities on line - application, sanction, verification of donor and receiver, utilization of funds for purposes intended. Hope the sieve is fully plugged and anti nationals and evangelists and terrorists are caught and stopped. In fact many NGOs operate from the same address, one room with no staff.

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[FONT=&quot]"In a muchawaited move, the Home Ministry has sent show-cause notices to more than 10,000NGOs for not filing their annual returns of foreign receipts. The notice asksthe NGOs to justify why their licenses should not be cancelled.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
“The generalpolicy of the Government is not to encourage soliciting of foreigncontribution. However, if it is intended for bona fide welfare activities,foreign contributions can be received by obtaining registration or priorpermission from the Centre.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
"that thereare more than 20 lakh NGOs in the country, but less than 2 per cent of them —which is 43527 — were registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation)Act (FCRA) up to March 31, 2012. During 2011-2012, 22,702 NGOs reported receiptof foreign contributions amounting to Rs 11546.29 crore. Imagine what foreigncontributions may have amounted to in all 20 lakh of them.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
“A significant number of Indian NGOs (fundedby some donors based in the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands andScandinavian countries) have been noticed to be using people-centric issues tocreate an environment which lends itself to stalling development projects.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Concernedabout the same, in July, the Home Ministry had served notice to 21,493 NGOs fornot submitting annual return under FCRA. The Parliament was informed about thesame. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said then that in case of4,138 NGOs, letters dispatched from the Home Ministry were returned undeliveredby the post office as addresses were not found and after due considerationtheir registrations were cancelled.

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Don't know how many people in this country are aware of this danger.. Till Indira Gandhi was in control, she never allowed any of these characters to get involved. America had a great thinker called Kessinger, he devised a plan by instituting a set of people on the job basically with idea to safeguard american interest and for the benefits of americans (the famous Kessinger Report which he implemented started this NGO business). Basically in some form penetrate into certain countries where there are natural resources which is importance to america and pruned it down to some countries where the population growth is high (which is not in the interest of america's dream and vision). They unleashed these characters. One can call any name (from healthcare, nutrition, WHO, democracy), pumped in money, create population through monetary support. Many countries realise this great threat and don't allow these guys to operate. They started controlling every policy decision in the country (Walmart chief even went one step ahead and told Manmohan Singh that leave your farmers to me, we will take care of them). Isn't it our elected PM's job to take care of his countrymen ?? MMS kept quiet and FM Chidambaram was quite happy that someone will take care of my problems... All these johnnies should be picked up and throw them into Indian ocean...

 

[krish44]

we have to decide whether we are a open or closed society .

in case we are a closed society , it is a good move.

let us be like china then.

we cannot be selectively open to some and not to others

more we investigate , more muck will come out .

NGos were basically set up by the well off to milk the govt and foreign agencies under dubious heads.

most do not have any offices or addresses '

they employ out of work graduates to churn out cut and paste reports copied from various places on cooked up data to serve various causes .

the accounts if any are prepared by old accountant often retired fellows who may prepare the same with help of chartered accountants to evade all authorities.

 

[sangom]

It is an open secret that foreign money transfer through NGO route is potentially harmful to indian interests, and the illegal money is used for terrorism, conversion, buying property, stall development projects, support pressure groups in universities and politicians. Hope all this will be controlled in future. The NGOs have to register, get permission from reserve bank and home office before accepting foreign donations and submit tax returns. It is now possible to link all elated activities on line - application, sanction, verification of donor and receiver, utilization of funds for purposes intended. Hope the sieve is fully plugged and anti nationals and evangelists and terrorists are caught and stopped. In fact many NGOs operate from the same address, one room with no staff.

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"In a muchawaited move, the Home Ministry has sent show-cause notices to more than 10,000NGOs for not filing their annual returns of foreign receipts. The notice asksthe NGOs to justify why their licenses should not be cancelled.
“The generalpolicy of the Government is not to encourage soliciting of foreigncontribution. However, if it is intended for bona fide welfare activities,foreign contributions can be received by obtaining registration or priorpermission from the Centre.”
"that thereare more than 20 lakh NGOs in the country, but less than 2 per cent of them —which is 43527 — were registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation)Act (FCRA) up to March 31, 2012. During 2011-2012, 22,702 NGOs reported receiptof foreign contributions amounting to Rs 11546.29 crore. Imagine what foreigncontributions may have amounted to in all 20 lakh of them.
“A significant number of Indian NGOs (fundedby some donors based in the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands andScandinavian countries) have been noticed to be using people-centric issues tocreate an environment which lends itself to stalling development projects.”
Concernedabout the same, in July, the Home Ministry had served notice to 21,493 NGOs fornot submitting annual return under FCRA. The Parliament was informed about thesame. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said then that in case of4,138 NGOs, letters dispatched from the Home Ministry were returned undeliveredby the post office as addresses were not found and after due considerationtheir registrations were cancelled.

http://www.niticentral.com/2014/10/01/ngos-foreign-funding-home-ministry-notice-239632.html

If my memory and understanding are correct, this NGO business got its first major boost during the Rajeev Gandhi era. Attracted by the fact that one can just promote some NGO or the other, pick up a number of "foreign connections" and very soon get the opportunities to have so many foreign jaunts under the pretext of the avowed aim of the NGO, many people with political & bureaucratic connections floated NGOs throughout the country.

The net result was that the poor people for whose benefit and upliftment all these NGOs were supposed to have been working, got poorer by the vast sums of moneys spent in these foreign junkets by one or two "influential" people managing the NGOs. Cases were not few where the same person "headed" a large number of NGOs and hence were mostly abroad for major part of the year!

I think India should ban forthwith all kinds of NGOs and ask them to convert to co-operatives or Registered Associations or may be, even Limited Companies. NGOs failing to comply should be closed down and their assets confiscated.