Foreign Funding
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Foreign entities funding Indian NGOs to stall public projects, Centre tells Supreme Court
The court was hearing a plea by NGO Environics Trust, which has been accused of hiring paid protestors to oppose a ‘development project’ in a village in Odisha.
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Centre for Policy Research’s foreign funding licence cancelled
The think tank will be ineligible to get fresh donations from abroad or use the existing foreign donations without the home ministry’s clearance.
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Home ministry dodges query on cancelling foreign contribution licences of non-profits
An RTI activist had asked the ministry to make the cancellation orders public.
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FCRA needs ‘drastic overhaul’ to make it more accessible, ex-bureaucrats urge Amit Shah
In an open letter, the group said that the law has been used to act against NGOs that take an independent view on economic, social and political issues.
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FCRA licence of Harsh Mander’s think tank suspended because he wrote articles for newspapers
The ministry also accused the Centre for Equity Studies of using foreign contributions to create and release reports authored by non-FCRA associations.
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Centre for Policy Research’s foreign funding licence suspended
The office of the Delhi-based think tank was raided by the Income Tax department in September.
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Delhi HC dismisses plea seeking neutral body to oversee foreign funding licence
The Association for Democratic Reforms had argued in its plea that there exists a conflict of interest in the government implementing the FCRA law.
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Foreign funding licence of 6,677 NGOs suspended between 2017 to 2021, Centre tells Rajya Sabha
The most number of licences were cancelled in Tamil Nadu.
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Delhi HC refuses to stay cancellation of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative’s foreign fund licence
The court has asked the Centre to file a response to a petition filed by the non-government organisation challenging the home ministry’s decision.
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Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative says Centre’s allegations on FCRA violation were vague
We have responded to every alleged irregularity cited while cancelling our foreign funding licence, the organisation said.
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‘Receiving foreign donations cannot be absolute right’: SC upholds constitutional validity of FCRA
The Act, which lays down conditions under which civil society organisations can receive funds from abroad, was challenged on the grounds that it was arbitrary.
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Delhi HC upholds Centre’s order suspending FCRA approval to Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The judge held that the suspension of the registration of the human rights organisation was in consonance with the objective of the law.
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