No foreign funding for over 12,000 NGOs whose FCRA license expired: MHA data

Jan 1, 2022
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Licenses underneath the Overseas Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2010, required to obtain international funding, of greater than 12,580 non-profit organisations (NGOs) have ceased as on Saturday, the Union dwelling ministry confirmed in its up to date checklist. Of those, FCRA licenses of almost 6,000 NGOs expired yesterday.

The entire NGOs registered underneath FCRA which can be lively or alive have now come all the way down to 16,829 from 22,762 a day in the past. The registration of 5,933 NGOs has both been canceled or they didn’t apply for renewal.

The checklist of entities whose FCRA licenses are deemed to have been seized consists of Medical Council of India, Emmanuel Hospital Affiliation, and Tuberculosis Affiliation Of India, Asha Kiran Rural Instructional Improvement Society, Chaitanya Rural Improvement Society, amongst others.

Hamdard Training Society, Delhi Faculty Of Social Work Society, DAV School Belief and Administration Society, India Islamic Cultural Centre, Nuclear Science Centre in JNU, India Habitat Centre, Girl Shri Ram School for Girls are additionally on the checklist.

Earlier, 6587 NGOs had been already part of the checklist.

“The NGOs got sufficient time however they didn’t replace. Even after the given extension, some NGOs had nonetheless not utilized (for the license),” information company ANI reported, quoting dwelling ministry sources.

The validity of FCRA registration of some NGOs that had been expiring between September 29, 2020, and September 30, 2021, was prolonged until March 31, 2022.