Foreign NGOs in India - Cause for concern

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I am not targeting evangelist as such in this thread,but instead so called "social activist" in India who most of the time fight for issues that the masses cannot connect to. The social work done by these people often lean to propaganda work and less of social work aka manipulation of public perception using lies,dubious funds all posing as people who promote democratic values.

In short subversive actions of social workers are things to keep watch and I really believe that we should emulate the Russians in muzzling these NGOs to prevent movements who might not be in national interest.
Amrit Singh, for example?.
 

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What is this. A political thread for bashing people of opposite political ideology? So now Medha Patkar is a Vatican agent?
 

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Who Killed Karkare? -The Real face of Terrorism in India

Political violence, or terrorism, by State as well as by non- State actors has a long history in India. The allegation that sections of and individual Indian Muslims indulged in "terrorism" surfaced for the first time with the ascent of the Hindutva forces in mid-1990s and became state policy with the BJP's coming to power at the Centre. With even "secular" media joining the role as stenographers of security agencies, this became an accepted fact so much so that common Indians and even many Muslims started believing in this false propaganda.

This book, by a former senior police officer, with a distinguished career that included unearthing the Telgi scam, peeps behind the propaganda screen, using material mostly in the public domain as well as his long police experience. It comes out with some startling facts and analysis, the first of its kind, to expose the real actors behind the so-called "Islamic terrorism" in India whose greatest feat was to murder the Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare who dared to expose these forces and paid with his life for his courage and commitment to truth. While unearthing the conspiracy behind the murder of Karkare, this book takes a hard look at some of the major incidents attributed to "Islamic terrorism" in India and finds them baseless.
When asked, "What is Truth?", Father of the Nation, Gandhi ji replied, "Truth is God". | Who Killed Karkare?


The link was originally posted on Teesta Satalvad facebook page, this tend to meet with Digvijay statement on Karkare death.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teesta-Setalvad/227946467232276?ref=ts&fref=ts

What is this. A political thread for bashing people of opposite political ideology? So now Medha Patkar is a Vatican agent?
Is any such thing mentioned on this thread.
Our social activist if they are doing work in the interest of the country then no problem of getting scrutinised.what you say?
 

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SC steps in, HC revokes transfer of magistrate hearing Zakia plea - Indian Express

The recent transfer of the metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra, who was hearing Zakia Jafri's plea challenging the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT that probed the 2002 riots, has reportedly been revoked by the Gujarat High Court on SC's directions.

According to sources in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), during the hearing of a bail application in the Gulberg Society massacre case on May 7, the SC was informed by amicus curiae Harish Salve that magistrate Ganatra had been transferred since his term had ended.

"The special three-member bench of SC was informed that arguments on Zakia's petition were in an advanced stage, but the routine transfer had turned the process back to square one. Therefore, the apex court conveyed to the Gujarat High Court that it would delay the case since the new magistrate would take his own time before starting the hearings, which could take months," said a source.

Following this, the SC reportedly communicated with the Gujarat High Court about rethinking the transfer.

Three top SIT officials - A K Malhotra, Ashish Bhatiya and Himanshu Shukla - met High Court registrar M J Thakkar on Friday evening and were reportedly told that the transfer had been revoked.

In her petition, Jafri had challenged the clean chit given by SIT to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others who she had accused of complicity in the 2002 riots in which her husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed at Gulberg Society, where they then lived.

SIT had termed Zakia's complaint as a "fiction" and its counsels had argued in Ganatra's court for six consecutive days before the Gujarat High Court announced his transfers as part of a routing shake-up.
 

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Activists bristle as India cracks down on foreign funding of NGOs - The Washington Post

Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world's largest democracy.

India has tightened the rules on nongovernmental organizations over the past two years, following protests that delayed several important industrial projects. About a dozen NGOs that the government said engaged in activities that harm the public interest have seen their permission to receive foreign donations revoked, as have nearly 4,000 small NGOs for what officials said was inadequate compliance with reporting requirements.
The United States is the top donor nation to Indian NGOs, followed by Britain and Germany, according to figures compiled by the Indian government, with Indian NGOs receiving funds from both the U.S. government and private U.S. institutions. In the year ending in March 2011, the most recent period for which data are available, about 22,000 NGOs received a total of more than $2 billion from abroad, of which $650 million came from the United States.
Trouble for many nonprofit activist groups here began more than a year ago when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed groups from the United States for fomenting -anti-nuclear protests that have stalled the commissioning of India's biggest reactor, a Russian-backed project in Koodankulam in power-starved Tamil Nadu state.

But the government's action appears to have had its desired effect. "NGOs are too scared to visit Koodankulam or associate with us now," said anti-nuclear activist S. P. Udayakumar. :yey:
 

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Russia Names 'Color Revolutions', Foreign NGOs as Security Threats

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachric...r-einer-vom-ausland-angezettelten-revolution/


Russia just issued its revised national security document which names so-called color revolutions as a potential high risk to the country. The strategy document is a reaction to the Ukraine coup that was masterminded by the Western alliance, and the military threat from NATO member states following the coup.

Russia sees a threat to its security caused by activities from foreign parties, organizations, and NGOs. These groups are quite active in former Eastern bloc states and intend to conduct so-called color revolutions – that means to agitate and provoke an elected government until it can be overthrown. Despite the argumentation of U.S. news agency Reuters, the new doctrine is not directed in any way against the U.S. — at least according to the Russian news agency, TASS. According to TASS, the new strategy document identifies “radical social groups which use nationalist and religious extremist ideologies, foreign and international NGOs, and also private citizens who work to undermine Russia’s territorial integrity.” Those movements would intend to destroy Russia’s traditional spiritual and moral values. Reuters wording [of the headline] “Russia names United States among threats in new Russian security strategy” could be seen as a — possibly unintended — interpretation from Reuters that the US could be behind such color revolutions.
 

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Remember Narmada Bachao Aandolan? Yeah that thing that Medha Patkar, Anna hazare and Arundhati Roy( yeah those foreign funded NGOs) used to get famous. The one Aamir Khan used when he wanted to appear "socially responsible". That movement failed utterly. Narmada Sagar dam was built, and surprise, surprise, Narmada didn't need saving by these guys.

In fact, an island in the Narmada sarovar is the venue of the first Jal Mahotsav next month. This is going to be a great tourist spot in the future.

Also. Malwa and Nimar region is being transformed by irrigation and power. The area where poor farmers produced cheap millet is now producing stuff like strawberry and saffron. The area is growing rapidly and if there was a way to buy a stock in that part of the country, I would.

No matter how much the Left tries to hold us back, us Indians find a way to move ahead, provided we have a friendly, non interfering government at our back.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...tsav-hanuwantiya-island-khandwa/1/573066.html
 

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4,139 NGOs lose FCRA licence, most in TN - Indian Express
Shyamlal Yadav : New Delhi, Fri Aug 10 2012, 03:32 hrs

The government has, over the past one month, prohibited 4,139 NGOs from receiving contributions from sources overseas. The largest block of NGOs who have been shackled — 794, or about 19 per cent of the total — are based in Tamil Nadu, ground zero of the NGO-led protests against the Kudankulam atomic power plant.

The government has published the list of NGOs who have lost their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration on the home ministry's web site. FCRA clearance is mandatory for an NGO to receive any contribution from overseas. The registrations were "canceled" because of the "violation" of FCRA between July 2012 and last week, the ministry has said.

Earlier in March, the government had cracked down on four NGOs for allegedly funding the massive protests that had paralysed work at the Kudankulam plant site in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district for weeks, and ordered a freeze on the bank accounts of some other NGOs.

In November 2011, it had frozen the bank accounts of 21 NGOs, and barred another 60 from accepting overseas contributions.

While FCRA clearance is mandatory for all NGOs that accept foreign contributions, the government makes public the names of organisations which receive over Rs 1 crore in overseas contributions in any financial year. According to the home ministry, there were 262 NGOs in this category in 2011-12, a majority of whom were based in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi.

Together, these 262 NGOs received Rs 1,006.58 crore in foreign contributions, says the ministry web site. Major recipients of foreign contributions were SOS Children's Village, Delhi (Rs 67.93 crore), Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata (Rs 62.78 crore), AMG India International, Guntur (Rs 48.13 crore), Sadar Anjuman Ahmedia Quadian, Gurdaspur (Rs 39.22 crore) and Hyderabad Eye Institute, Hyderabad (Rs 33.47 crore).

The number of NGOs whose FCRA clearance has been withdrawn over the past one month — 4,139 — is 9.5 per cent of the total 43,451 registered in India. The largest number of these NGOs are based, after Tamil Nadu, in Andhra Pradesh (670), followed by Kerala (450), West Bengal (384), Maharashtra (352), Delhi (299), Karnataka (296), Orissa (160), and Gujarat (158).

Total foreign contributions to NGOs fell sharply in 2011-12 from Rs 3,463.71 crore in 2010-11. An analysis of foreign receipts by NGOs published in The Indian Express on January 4, 2012 reported that as many as 958 NGOs received contributions of over Rs 1 crore in 2010-11, a little less than four times the number of the next year.


finally someone in the govt has woken up and is doing his duty, the free reign given to troublemakers posing as NGO's has finally come to an end. i wonder if the murderous ngo worldvision is included in this list.
Hi friends today 2 people from SOS Children's Village has come to ask for donations... one of them is from chennai.... Any body familiar with this ngo organization. How much we can bet, that they didnt run any activity against our nation. What I mean is can someone enlighten me with facts about this sos organization if familiar. thanks.
 

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Hi friends today 2 people from SOS Children's Village has come to ask for donations... one of them is from chennai.... Any body familiar with this ngo organization. How much we can bet, that they didnt run any activity against our nation. What I mean is can someone enlighten me with facts about this sos organization if familiar. thanks.
We are talking about foreign NGOs. And you tell me friend, is seeking donations for helping SoS children a good idea? Why can they not utilise their own hard money? How can we say they are authentic at the time of donations? Not all NGO's are evil minded, but their no. are negligible. If we go one by one by identifying and close their fund channels, it will be very late and meanwhile the bad NGOs will keep derailing things. The sooner, the better. Just like terror org. plants sleeper cells, Foreign powers uses these NGO's like that.
 

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Hi friends today 2 people from SOS Children's Village has come to ask for donations... one of them is from chennai.... Any body familiar with this ngo organization. How much we can bet, that they didnt run any activity against our nation. What I mean is can someone enlighten me with facts about this sos organization if familiar. thanks.
I looked them up and couldn't find anything related to "Christ" "Church" "Jesus" etc. What were the names of these people and how was their dress
 

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Hi friends today 2 people from SOS Children's Village has come to ask for donations... one of them is from chennai.... Any body familiar with this ngo organization. How much we can bet, that they didnt run any activity against our nation. What I mean is can someone enlighten me with facts about this sos organization if familiar. thanks.
Check if its linked to SOS Ministeries. Google "SOS Children" and "SOS Ministries" together
 

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Majority justice causes are church linked, even if not by nature of being 'secular' they will be as Hindus don't hide the cultural-religious aspect of their organizations.

I would not trust them,
 

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one of the name is sneha :) looks like Christian....
http://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/frequently-asked-questions#1

However the best way to find out is to talk to the person. Mention "Happy Holi" as it was Holi recently and then say "Happy Easter" or whatever and judge reaction. Typically a person who follows whichever particular belief will be more elated than otherwise. If the person is neutral for both, probably an "atheist" lol which I guess is fine. Just be wary of the Christians. The best is to talk smartly to people and find out their beliefs.
 

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