The organisations are among a cumulative 12,580 whose FCRA licence — which allows them to get foreign funding — has ceased to exist over the past few years.
The NGOs with FCRA registration certificates expiring between 29 Sept 2020 and 31 March 2022 and have applied for renewal are eligible, a home ministry notice stated.
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the govt said there exists no right to seek foreign contributions by NGOs and voluntary organizations without regulation.
In the Rajya Sabha Wednesday, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said Rs 19,941 crore was received from the United States between 2016-17 and 2019-20.
All these NGOs running drug rehabilitation and de-addiction centres, homes for senior citizens and residential schools for SC\ST children receive funds from the government.
Amnesty International Tuesday said it is halting all its activities in India due to freezing of its accounts and claimed that it is being subjected to an 'incessant witch-hunt'.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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