NGO working on rights issues loses FCRA registration
- The Union Home Ministry cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of the parent entity of the non-profit Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA)
- NGO monitors and critically analyses the role of financial institutions and their impact on development, human rights, and the environment.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- In a recent report, the CFA had highlighted how additional projects sanctioned in a Special Economic Zone operated by the Adani Group in the Kutch region of Gujarat “will compound environmental hazards and increase health risks for the people while further polluting the environment and accelerating degradation of the ecology”.
- Earlier in January, the Ministry cancelled the FCRA registration of Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a leading public policy research institution in New Delhi.
- Since 2015, the FCRA registration of more than 16,000 NGOs have been cancelled on account of “violation.”
- there were 15,946 FCRA-registered NGOs active in the country. The FCRA registration of nearly 6,000 NGOs had ceased to operate from January 1, 2022 as the Ministry either refused to renew their application or the NGOs did not apply for renewal.
PRELIMS TAKEAWAY
- Foreign Contribution Regulation Act