The FCRA regulates foreign donations and ensures that such contributions do not adversely affect internal security.
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Centre cancels FCRA licence of NGO
The Indian government has barred an NGO from receiving international funding. Union home ministry has barred the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), an NGO registered with the government under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), from receiving foreign funding including that from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for[Read More…]
MHA cancels FCRA licence of Indira Jaising’s NGO Lawyers Collective
Months after suspending the FCRA registration of Lawyers Collective – an NGO run by renowned lawyer Indira Jaising, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled its FCRA registration. The organization has been barred from receiving foreign funds. In its November 27 order, the ministry had alleged that there[Read More…]
Uncritical compliance isn’t a desirable trait
It is disturbing to see how readily people comply with whatever it is the State has to order. And when I speak of compliance, it is not that there be an attempt to scuttle every move, but that there at least be made some critical evaluation of an order/ regulation.[Read More…]