Non-governmental organisations (NGOs): India - Revision history

Jyoti: /* 2020/ Rules for FCRA clearance/ registration */

2025-05-04T08:05:53Z

‎2020/ Rules for FCRA clearance/ registration

Jyoti: /* Regulating NGOs */

2023-11-03T09:01:49Z

‎Regulating NGOs

Jyoti: /* 2022, Jan */

2022-01-16T23:05:12Z

‎2022, Jan

Jyoti: /* 2017/ 7 violations by PHFI */

2022-01-16T22:57:43Z

‎2017/ 7 violations by PHFI

Jyoti: /* Foreign funds */

2021-11-14T05:12:55Z

‎Foreign funds

Jyoti: /* NGOs with a religious agenda */

2021-09-26T14:22:49Z

‎NGOs with a religious agenda

Jyoti: /* 2016-20 */

2021-09-26T12:00:48Z

‎2016-20

Jyoti: /* 2016-17: Foreign funding drops by around 60% */

2021-03-31T07:21:32Z

‎2016-17: Foreign funding drops by around 60%

Jyoti: /* 2006-15: Foreign-funded NGOs' registrations cancelled */

2021-01-03T07:54:20Z

‎2006-15: Foreign-funded NGOs' registrations cancelled

Jyoti: /* 2014-18: Registration of 14,800 NGOs cancelled for FCRA violations */

2021-01-03T07:54:01Z

‎2014-18: Registration of 14,800 NGOs cancelled for FCRA violations

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 In a table put on the FCRA website on Friday, the ministry spelt out the requirements needed to be fulfilled under the amended Act and rules for four different categories of NGOs and associations; ones that have already submitted renewal application; those which have already submitted application for FCRA registration or prior permission; those which are yet to submit application for renewal of FCRA registration; and ones that are yet to submit application for FCRA registration or prior permission.
-[[Category:Government|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
+==Time riders on receipt, utilisation of funds under FCRA/ 2025==
-NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA]]
+[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/govt-puts-time-riders-to-receipt-utilisation-of-funds-under-fcra/articleshow/120079591.cms Bharti Jain, April 8, 2025: ''The Times of India'']
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+NEW DELHI: The Centre has put a three-year limit on NGOs and associations working on specific projects to receive foreign funds after being granted 'prior permission' under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010, besides setting a four-year timeframe for their utilisation. "Any receipt or utilisation of the foreign contribution beyond the above said time limits shall be a violation of FCRA, 2010, and in case of any violation, necessary punitive action shall be taken," the home ministry said in a public notice issued.
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-[[Category:Pakistan|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
+At the same time, the ministry left a window open for NGOs unable to receive or utilise foreign contributions in the specified three and four year validity period, respectively, for genuine reasons. It said an extension may be allowed in the validity period for an association/organisation "on a case-to-case basis, based on the merits of the case". Until now, the validity of 'prior permission' granted under FCRA was co-terminus with the duration of the specific projects or activities for which the foreign contribution was obtained and that too from the specified source. A fresh 'prior permission' would need to be sought to receive foreign contributions for another project/purpose or if the funding was to be accepted from a new source.
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 =NGOs with a religious agenda=

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	The Centre has directed 2,025 NGOs to validate their foreign contribution designated accounts with banks and inform the Home Ministry within 15 days. The ministry said all NGOs should receive donations from abroad in a single account.PTI		The Centre has directed 2,025 NGOs to validate their foreign contribution designated accounts with banks and inform the Home Ministry within 15 days. The ministry said all NGOs should receive donations from abroad in a single account.PTI
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		+	=Rules=
		+	==Declaration of movable, immovable assets\ 2023==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rules-amended-ngos-under-fcra-will-have-to-declare-movable-immovable-assets/articleshow/103944600.cms Bharti Jain, Sep 26, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	NEW DELHI: NGOs and associations registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) will now be required to annually declare details of movable and immovable assets created by them out of the foreign contributions received.
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		+	Amending the Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules, 2011 through a notification issued on September 22, the home ministry has revised Form FC-4 — to be filled up as part of annual returns required to be submitted by NGOs under FCRA — to introduce two new tables. Under the first table, the NGOs must list details of movable assets, their value at the beginning of the relevant financial year, value of assets acquired and disposed of during the financial year and their value as per the balance sheet at the end of the year.
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		+	In the second table relating to immovable assets, NGOs must list details of the land and buildings acquired from foreign contributions as on March 31 of the relevant financial year, their size, location and value as per the balance sheet. Currently, Form 4 only contains the field relating to purchase of fresh assets in the relevant year.
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		+	The change in rules came ahead of a six-month extension in validity of registration certificates issued to NGOs under FCRA, where such licence was or is due to expire between September 29, 2020 and March 31, 2024 but the application for its renewal has already been or will be submitted to the ministry before expiry of the validity.
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		+	“The validity of registration certificates of such entities whose validity was extended till 30.09.2023... and whose renewal application is pending, will stand extended till 31.03.2024 or till the date of disposal of renewal application, whichever is earlier,” states the public notice issued by FCRA division of the ministry.
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		+	It adds that for NGOs whose FCRA registration is expiring between September 30, 2023 and March 31, 2024, and which have applied or will apply for renewal before expiry of validity of the five-year licence, the licence “will stand extended up to 31.03.2024, or till the date of disposal of renewal application, whichever is earlier”.
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		+	The notice, however, clarified that the FCRA licence of NGOs whose renewal plea has already been turned down, will be deemed to have expired on the date of such refusal, rendering them ineligible to either receive or utilise any foreign contribution.
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		+	As per the home ministry’s FCRA website, 16,666 NGOs and associations with FCRA licence were active as on September 25, while the FCRA licence of 13,282 entities was deemed expired. The FCRA registration of another 20,694 NGOs to receive foreign funds, had been cancelled, it said.
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		+	[[Category:Government\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
		+	NON-GOVE]]
		+	[[Category:India\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
		+	NON-GOVE]]
		+	[[Category:Institutions\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	NON-GOVE]]

	=NGOs in anti-India activities=		=NGOs in anti-India activities=

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 [[File: Number of FCRA revocations, 2018-20.jpg|Number of FCRA revocations, 2018-20 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-foreign-money-became-shorthand-for-security-threat/articleshow/88687656.cms  January 12, 2022: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 What did the IB think was alarming? Things like Greenpeace upgrading its communication systems and using encrypted software — “such experts are a permanent part of Greenpeace India’s strategy making and implementation,” it said. Field reports by NGOs — “these foreign donors lead local NGOs to provide field reports, which are used to build a record against India”. And protests — while talking about the Koodankulam nuclear power project protests, the report says that “enquiry into the pattern, design and funding of protests at the 21 anti-nuclear plant or uranium mine sites in India revealed the presence of 65 NGOs, 17 FCRA-registered.” So, just over a quarter of the NGOs it found protesting were foreign-funded.
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	Stating that the association and its associates have indulged in gross violations detrimental to public interest and in contravention of stated provisions of FCRA, the home ministry said there was need to revise its order for renewal of registration in public interest.		Stating that the association and its associates have indulged in gross violations detrimental to public interest and in contravention of stated provisions of FCRA, the home ministry said there was need to revise its order for renewal of registration in public interest.
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		+	==2022, Jan==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-foreign-money-became-shorthand-for-security-threat/articleshow/88687656.cms January 12, 2022: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: Most expired FCRA registrations are in these states, 2021.jpg\|Most expired FCRA registrations are in these states, 2021<br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-foreign-money-became-shorthand-for-security-threat/articleshow/88687656.cms January 12, 2022: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	[[File: Number of FCRA renewals, 2016- August 4, 2021.jpg\|Number of FCRA renewals, 2016- August 4, 2021 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-foreign-money-became-shorthand-for-security-threat/articleshow/88687656.cms January 12, 2022: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	[[File: Number of FCRA revocations, 2018-20.jpg\|Number of FCRA revocations, 2018-20 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/how-foreign-money-became-shorthand-for-security-threat/articleshow/88687656.cms January 12, 2022: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	Exactly seven days after the Narendra Modi-led NDA government was sworn in for the first time in 2014, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) filed a report to the PM’s Office and other security-related ministries and agencies. ‘Concerted efforts by select foreign funded NGOs to “take down” Indian development projects,’ it was called. The ‘secret’ report was leaked within days.
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		+	What did the IB think was alarming? Things like Greenpeace upgrading its communication systems and using encrypted software — “such experts are a permanent part of Greenpeace India’s strategy making and implementation,” it said. Field reports by NGOs — “these foreign donors lead local NGOs to provide field reports, which are used to build a record against India”. And protests — while talking about the Koodankulam nuclear power project protests, the report says that “enquiry into the pattern, design and funding of protests at the 21 anti-nuclear plant or uranium mine sites in India revealed the presence of 65 NGOs, 17 FCRA-registered.” So, just over a quarter of the NGOs it found protesting were foreign-funded.
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		+	It started last week when the FCRA license for Missionaries of Charity, the Kolkata-based group founded by Mother Teresa for the poor, sick and destitute, was cancelled. The ministry quickly said that it did not meet the “eligibility conditions” and “some adverse inputs were noticed” while going over its renewal application.
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		+	As of January 4 afternoon, there were 16,908 FCRA-registered associations (down from about 22,800 on December 31, 2021) and licenses of 12,501 organisations have expired — of which around 6,000 lost theirs on January 1. Among them were IIT-Delhi, Oxfam India, Jamia Millia Islamia, Indian Medical Association, Nehru Memorial Museum, India Habitat Centre, India Islamic Cultural Centre and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.
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		+	The government explanation is that their renewal applications were either rejected or they did not apply. And some of these might be because the Centre had last year decided that organisations set up by governments were exempt from FCRA registration.
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		+	''' Why is it being seen as controversial? '''
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		+	BJP, which is in power at the Centre, and Congress were both found guilty of violating FCRA in 2014 by the Delhi high court. Within a year, the BJP-led government changed the definition of a “foreign source” and sought legitimacy for their corporate funding before the high court.
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		+	Not much has happened in the case since then but the questions around specific definitions in the Act have often stirred controversy.
		+	The PM CARES Fund, for instance, is exempt from FCRA registration. “This enables PM CARES Fund to accept donations and contributions from individuals and organisations based in foreign countries. This is consistent with respect to Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF). PMNRF has also received foreign contributions as a public trust since 2011,” its site says. It was not set up under a central or state Act, which are exempt, but as a charitable trust. The exemption is granted to government establishments that are audited by the CAG. PM CARES is not.
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		+	Over the years, meanwhile, the number of organisations whose FCRA registration has been renewed has gone down dramatically.
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		+	And the number of FCRA registrations revoked shot up in the election year of 2019.
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		+	''' Since when do laws keep tabs on NGOs in India? '''
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		+	It goes back to the Revolt of 1857. A 1976 paper on laws and regulations for the voluntary sector in south Asia said that the “intellectual underpinnings of the rebellion came from the numerous arts and culture societies that had sprung in India in the middle of the nineteenth century.” So, two years after the rebellion was crushed in 1858, the Societies Registration Act was put in place, on the lines of the English Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854, in England. Any group of seven or more people forming an association had to register with the government. Monitoring organisations would now be easier.
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		+	The law stayed on when India became independent. But the 1970s were the times of frenetic political activity. The India-Pakistan War, the Emergency, the Naxalite movement. Saying that funds from overseas were being used for subversive causes, the government introduced the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act in 1976. The FCRA.
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		+	The IB report on the 'threat' of foreign-funded NGOs had identified coal-fired power plants, nuclear power plants, uranium mines, genetically modified organisms, mega industrial projects, hydel projects and extractive industries in NE as sectors running into the staunchest protests by NGOs
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		+	''' How has FCRA evolved since then? '''
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		+	The 1976 Act placed restrictions on foreign funds. Politicians, elected representatives, election candidates, journalists and government employees were not allowed to take any money from foreign sources. And contributions for everyone else were going to be regulated. While that applied to anyone getting foreign funding — students with scholarships, for instance — the focal point of discussions was the NGO sector.
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		+	What an NGO defines itself as determines which law it came under. If it is a society, the Societies Registration Act would govern it. As a trust, the Indian Trust Act, 1882 or the Charitable and Religious Trusts Act, 1920 would. A union would come under the ambit of the Trade Union Act 1926 and a cooperative under the Cooperative Societies Act, 1912.
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		+	Its funding, however, would be under the FCRA radar from 1976. But not with the finance ministry or a ministry concerned with the work it does. It was placed under the ministry of home affairs and ministry of internal security — the money trail, from this point on, was to be treated as a security issue.
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		+	The first version of the Act asked NGOs to inform the government whenever they received money from abroad. But how would the government know if an NGO didn’t?
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		+	So, in 1984, the Act was amended and two changes were brought in — an NGO that expected foreign funds would have to register with the government and tell the government every six months if it has received any, or it could ask the government for permission before getting foreign funds each time (as opposed to telling it after).
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		+	In 2010, it was repealed and a new, wider Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act brought in. A provision to identify organisations of “political nature” came in. Someone authorised to receive foreign funds could not transfer those to someone who was not registered. The money would have to be received in a single bank account (though it could use the money through other accounts in other banks) and would not be used for “speculative purposes”. No more than 50% of the money could be used for administrative expenses. And the Centre could stop an organisation from getting foreign contributions, and identify an organisation, person, sector, purpose and source for which prior permission would be needed.
		+	The Act was amended again in 2020. Now, an organisation cannot transfer any of its foreign funds to anyone else, even if they are registered to receive overseas contributions. It cannot use its foreign contribution money through any account other than one that it registers as the “FCRA account”. The 50% cap on foreign money used for administrative expenses is down to 20%. The government can order an inquiry before issuing a registration. And it can suspend a registration for an additional 180 days (after the first 180-day period, as under the 2010 Act, passes).
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		+	''' Has it become a political tool? '''
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		+	Voluntary associations, by definition, need support and aid to keep on doing their work. That comes from either the state itself or from foreign benefactors, especially when an organisation challenges the workings of the state. So, funding choices can translate into either dependence or latitude.
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		+	It’s the same in many parts of the world. In Egypt, NGOs can’t get foreign funding without the approval of the administrative authority. Ethiopian NGOs can’t get more than 10% of their budget from foreign donors. The most prominent example came last week, when Russia shut down its oldest human rights organisation, Memorial International, after designating it as a “foreign agent” and using a law targeting organisations that get international funding. In court, the organisation was accused of creating “a false image of USSR as a terrorist state.”
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		+	This brings us back to the 2014 IB report, which, in similar terms, lays out why it thinks foreign-funded NGOs need to be monitored: “A small group of activists and NGOs have at times succeeded in shaping policy debates in India. Apart from that, in some cases it is observed that in a cyclic process, an NGO is set up, funds are obtained from abroad, a few articles are commissioned, a PR firm is recruited and, slowly, with the help of the media, an image is created. And then awards are procured from foreign countries to enhance the image, after which Government machinery finds it that (much) more difficult to act against the awardee.”
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		+	[[Category:India\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	[[Category:Institutions\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	[[Category:Pakistan\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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	=[[Greenpeace India]]=		=[[Greenpeace India]]=

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 =Foreign funds=
 ==Non-aligned NGOs entitled to them: SC==
 [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ngos-voluntary-organisations-not-aligned-to-political-party-are-entitled-to-get-foreign-fundssc/articleshow/74515451.cms  Amit Anand Choudhary, NGOs, voluntary organisations not aligned to political party are entitled to get foreign funds: SC, March 6, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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 The Centre is empowered under the Act to specify any organisation as organisation of political nature on the ground that organisation of farmers, workers, students, youth based on caste, community, religion, language or otherwise, which is not directly aligned to any political party, but whose objectives are towards advancement of political interests of such groups and if organisation employs common methods of political action like 'bandh' or 'hartal', 'rasta roko', 'rail roko' or 'jail bharo' in support of public causes.
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+[[Category:Pakistan|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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	A home ministry official on Tuesday clarified that there was no bar on foreign funding of Indian NGOs by Compassion International. “We pre-approved 34 donations by the American NGOs prior to Kerry's visit here (after it was placed on `prior permission'), and 10 after the visit.This was after some of the recipient NGOs approached us claiming that they were not involved in religious activities, including proselytisation, and we found their plea to be genuine. The home ministry's nod for the recent donations by Compassion International was not linked to Kerry's visit here,“ said a home ministry official.		A home ministry official on Tuesday clarified that there was no bar on foreign funding of Indian NGOs by Compassion International. “We pre-approved 34 donations by the American NGOs prior to Kerry's visit here (after it was placed on `prior permission'), and 10 after the visit.This was after some of the recipient NGOs approached us claiming that they were not involved in religious activities, including proselytisation, and we found their plea to be genuine. The home ministry's nod for the recent donations by Compassion International was not linked to Kerry's visit here,“ said a home ministry official.
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		+	==YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS==
		+	===2021/ 1===
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL/2021/09/13&entity=Ar01412&sk=D43C2B3B&mode=text Bharti Jain, Sep 13, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	The home ministry has over the past one-anda-half months suspended the foreign funding licence of six NGOs, which includes Christian evangelist groups and Islamic charities allegedly linked to religious conversion or funds misutilisation, citing violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. With these actions, the total number of organisations whose FCRA registration has been suspended so far this year has gone up to nine.
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		+	While the FCRA licence of Markazul Ighasathil Kairiyathil Hindiyya, a big Keralabased NGO linked to influential Sunni leader Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed, was cancelled on August 27 over “misutilisation” of funds, misrepresentation of facts, and nonfiling of annual FCRA returns in 2019-20, Odisha-based People’s Organisation of Empowerment of Tribals and Heavenly Grace Ministries as well as Madurai-based Russ Foundation were issued suspension orders under FCRA on August 28. One of the directors of Russ Foundation home was arrested in 2019 for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old inmate.
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		+	In July, Lucknow-based Al Hasan Educational and Welfare Organisation saw its FCRA nod being suspended over alleged activities related to forced religious conversions. Haryana-based Mewat Trust for Educational Welfare also had its FCRA licence suspended for180 days, though the reasons are not yet clear.
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		+	Earlier on June 8, 2021, the FCRA registration of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an NGO led by well known commentator on northeast Sanjoy Hazarika, was suspended, as was that of Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies on April 8, 2021. Another evangelist NGO that had its foreign funding licence suspended is Holy Spirit Ministries, which operates out of Andhra Pradesh.
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		+	The suspension of FCRA registration disables an NGO or association from receiving foreign contributions unless with the prior nod of the ministry. The FCRA bank accounts of the NGO are also frozen, preventing the organization from using funds parked in them. The affected NGO may make a representation to the MHA against the suspension, which unless revoked remains valid for 180 days and is followed by a permanent cancellation of the FCRA registration.
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		+	[[Category:Government\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	[[Category:India\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	[[Category:Institutions\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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		+	[[Category:Pakistan\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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	=Blacklisting of NGOs=		=Blacklisting of NGOs=

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 In terms of states/UTs in India where the foreign funding was headed, Delhi was No. 1 in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Tamil Nadu was second during the four-year period, barring in 2019-20 when Kerala took the No. 2 slot in terms of extent of foreign donations received.
-In terms of states/UTs in India where the foreign funding was headed, Delhi was No. 1 in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Tamil Nadu was second during the four-year period, barring in 2019-20 when Kerala took the No. 2 slot
+In terms of states/UTs in India where the foreign funding was headed, Delhi was No. 1 in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Tamil Nadu was second during the four-year period, barring in 2019-20 when Kerala took the No. 2 slot.
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	It is mandatory for an NGO or an organisation that has been granted licence under FCRA to file returns of its foreign contribution receipts and expenditure records on an annual basis.		It is mandatory for an NGO or an organisation that has been granted licence under FCRA to file returns of its foreign contribution receipts and expenditure records on an annual basis.
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		+	==2016-20==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2021%2F03%2F25&entity=Ar02024&sk=B2546C6A&mode=text March 26, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Foreign donations received over the past four years by NGOs and associations registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, totalled over Rs 50,975 crore, with the US topping the list of countries from where the funding emanated.
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		+	Replying to a query in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for home Nityanand Rai informed that foreign contributions to NGOs based in India rose from Rs 15,355 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 16,940 crore in 2017-18, before falling slightly to Rs 16,490 crore in 2018-19. In 2019-20, the donations declared by NGOs in their annual returns total Rs 2,190 crore, though this figure is not final since many NGOs are yet to file their annual returns in view of the deadline having been extended till June 30, 2021.
		+
		+	Incidentally, the number of NGOs that received foreign funds has fallen steadily from 18,304 in 2016-17 to 18,235 in 2017-18 and 17,540 in 2018-19.
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		+	The minister said the highest foreign contributions were received from the United States — Rs 5,869 crore in 2016-17, Rs 6,199 crore in 2017-18, Rs 6,907 crore in 2018-19 and Rs 966 crore in 2019-20.
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		+	In terms of states/UTs in India where the foreign funding was headed, Delhi was No. 1 in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Tamil Nadu was second during the four-year period, barring in 2019-20 when Kerala took the No. 2 slot in terms of extent of foreign donations received.
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		+	In terms of states/UTs in India where the foreign funding was headed, Delhi was No. 1 in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Tamil Nadu was second during the four-year period, barring in 2019-20 when Kerala took the No. 2 slot
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	As per rules, the ministry can levy a penalty of up to 5% of the foreign funds received, or Rs 50,000 — whichever is higher.		As per rules, the ministry can levy a penalty of up to 5% of the foreign funds received, or Rs 50,000 — whichever is higher.
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		+	==2014-18: Registration of 14,800 NGOs cancelled for FCRA violations==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F07%2F17&entity=Ar01515&sk=B009173D&mode=text July 17, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Over Rs 50,000 crore was received as foreign contributions by various NGOs and associations in India over a period of three years from 2015-16 to 2017-18, the home ministry said on Tuesday. Foreign contributions rose in 2017-18 to Rs 16,894 crore from Rs 15,343 crore in 2016-17, even though the government said it had cancelled the registration of over 14,800 associations under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act in the last five years.
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		+	Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a written question in Lok Sabha, said foreign donations received by FCRA-registered bodies fell from Rs 17,803 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 15,343 crore in 2016-17 but picked up in 2017-18. “Registration of more than 14,800 associations has been cancelled during the last five years because they committed violations of the provisions of FCRA, 2010,” the minister added.
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		+	[[Category:Pakistan\|NNON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIANON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS): INDIA
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	==25 NGOs lose FCRA licences, in national interest/ 2016==		==25 NGOs lose FCRA licences, in national interest/ 2016==

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	According to the IB report, CORDAID has added `extractive industries in the northeast' as one of the focal points for its interventions in India.		According to the IB report, CORDAID has added `extractive industries in the northeast' as one of the focal points for its interventions in India.

−	~~==2014-18: Registration of 14,800 NGOs cancelled for FCRA violations==~~
−	~~[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F07%2F17&entity=Ar01515&sk=B009173D&mode=text July 17, 2019: ''The Times of India'']~~

−	Over Rs 50,000 crore was received as foreign contributions by various NGOs and associations in India over a period of three years from 2015-16 to 2017-18, the home ministry said on Tuesday. Foreign contributions rose in 2017-18 to Rs 16,894 crore from Rs 15,343 crore in 2016-17, even though the government said it had cancelled the registration of over 14,800 associations under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act in the last five years.
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−	Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a written question in Lok Sabha, said foreign donations received by FCRA-registered bodies fell from Rs 17,803 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 15,343 crore in 2016-17 but picked up in 2017-18. “Registration of more than 14,800 associations has been cancelled during the last five years because they committed violations of the provisions of FCRA, 2010,” the minister added.

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