Here is the list of 23(updated) ngo that got clearance from frca in 22-23Hyderabad Public School Society gets FCRA licence
The Hyderabad Public School Society in Telangana has been granted a five-year Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) license by the Indian government, which will help it obtain foreign grants. A total of 21 NGOs have been issued FCRA licenses this year, including the Sikkim Manipal...m.economictimes.com
020840032 | Northeast Centre for Equity Action on Integrated Development | H. No.68, Daradi Bhawan, No.2 Madhabpur, P.O / P.S: Noonmati, Guwahati, Guwahati, 781020 | Social |
041910498 | Niswarth Children Foundation | 1 - Shanti Kalash Society, Opposite Amrut Baug and Sai Baba Temple, At and PO - Bavla, Bavla, 382220 | Economic ,Educational ,Social |
041910499 | KADVA PATIDAR BETALIS SAMAJ EDUCATION TRUST | Raj Shopping Center, Ahmedabad, 382480 | Religious(Hindu) ,Educational , |
041980092 | BHAVNAGAR BLOOD BANK | Office No. 1, 2, 3, Pl. No. 1686, B Wing, 1st Floor, Municipal Shopping Center, Sardarnagar, Bhavnagar, Gujarat-364001, Bhavnagar, 364001 | Cultural ,Economic ,Educational ,Social |
042000178 | Kasturba Sevashram Maroli | At - Post Maroli, Opp. Maroli Railway Station, Maroli Bazar, Mahuvar, Taluka -Jalalpor, District -Navsari, Gujarat., Navsari, 396436 | Cultural ,Educational ,Social |
042030069 | Shri Malia Hatina Panjrapole | NEAR S T STAND , MALIYA HATINA, 362245 | Cultural ,Economic ,Educational ,Social |
042060066 | ROTARY CLUB OF VISNAGAR CHARITABLE TRUST | 1, ROTARY BHAVAN, OPP. NUTAN HIGHSCHOOL, VISNAGAR, MEHSANA, 384315 | Educational ,Social |
042080146 | JALKRANTI TRUST | 15- ANMOL APPARTMENT , 3 VANIYA WADI, NEAR PATEL WADI, RAJKOT, 360002 | Cultural ,Economic ,Educational ,Social |
052850587 | VIJNANA BHARATHI EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE SOCIETY | KALLATH HOUSE, KARATH ROAD, PUTHIYAKAV, THEKKUMBHAGAM, TRIPUNITHURA P.O., ERNAKULAM, 682301 | Cultural ,Educational ,Social |
075901505 | KANAVAGAM | 23, Ayyasamy Street, Nehru Nagar, Chrompet, 600044 | Educational ,Social |
084020020 | Bhavyata Foundation | D-5/35, Chittaranjan Nagar CHS, Rajawadi, Vidyavihar, Mumbai, 400077 | Cultural ,Economic ,Educational ,Social |
075980334 | MOTHER ANNAI TRUST | No 2/62 B N No2/264 , Lakkinaickenpatti Tirupattur Taluk, , Tirupattur, 635654 | Economic ,Educational ,Social |
105060091 | AAMARA BISWAS | Kamalibazar, Sambalpur, 768001 | Social |
125560328 | mgd girls public school society | MGD School Jaipur, Sawai Ram Singh Road, , Jaipur, 302001 | Educational |
147070054 | GOPALNAGAR SHUVAYAN | VILLAGE KUNDRU POST JITUJURI, PURULIA, 723128 | Cultural ,Economic ,Educational |
172270109 | INCALCULABLE CYBER AWARENESS AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | Plot No. EP-2731, First Floor, Sector-57 Golf Course Extension Road, , Gurugram, 122413 | Educational ,Social |
227430023 | Sikkim Manipal University | 5TH MILE, TADONG, GANGTOK, 737102 | Educational |
231661913 | International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology iFOREST | I 89, 8th Floor, Himalaya House, 23 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, NEW DELHI, 110001 | Economic ,Educational ,Social |
231661914 | MAHASATI MOHAN DEVI JAIN SHIKSHAN SAMITI | SECTOR-14(EXTN), ROHINI, 110085 | Social |
368140096 | The Hyderabad Public School Society | 1-11-87 and 88, Begumpet, S.P. ROAD, HYDERABAD, 500016 | Educational |
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Taming the shadowy world of NGOs
Indian NGOs are organisationally and financially opaque. Many of them use multi-layer financial channels to hide their real money messiah.
Express illustration | Sourav Roy
Prabhu Chawla
Updated on:
07 Apr 2024, 12:41 am
4 min read
The conscience industry is one of the pillars of India's crumbling Left liberal edifice. There is nothing like a good cry to get the tears and dollars flowing for poverty propagandists. The elite NGOs who haunted the corridors of power—wooing munificent ministers and beneficial babus with the best vol-au-vent and five-star grub for unsuspecting whites with deep pockets and a cultural guilt about being rich while Acche Din is on the agenda—are quivering under their muslin dohars in Lutyens’ Delhi mansions after the Modi government emptied their wallets and froze their bank accounts.
The neo right wingers call them Nasty Greedy Operators (NGOs) who claim to promote the mirage of championing a clean environment, demolishing both economic and gender inequalities, empowering marginalised masses and converting the sick into healthy go-getters. However, close scrutiny and audit done by various agencies in India and overseas reveal that most heavy-hitter NGOs are a cabal of malicious mercenaries who collect moolah to sustain their luxe lifestyles, while the legerdemain of hypocrisy launders their generous reputation.
Last week, the Union home ministry cancelled the Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licences of five NGOs: CNI Synodical Board of Social Services, Voluntary Health Association of India, Indo-Global Social Service Society, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action, and Evangelical Fellowship of India. The charges were indulging in religious conversion and misuse of foreign funds. A couple of them had been raided by agencies last year and their accounts were audited. They have been getting big money from the US, Germany, Sweden and other European countries, foundations and trusts with controversial pasts.
The latest round of suspension and taming of NGOs is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mission to neutralise all institutions which his party believes undermines the cultural, social, religious and unique identity of India. Purging the NGOs of all illiberal elements and choking their financial pipeline is an unwritten part of BJP’s manifesto. The revocation of Article 370, construction of Ram Mandir and Uniform Civil Code have been its primary missions, as well as demolishing hostile and phoney civil society groups. It is not a coincidence that in 2023 alone, over 100 (in)famous think tanks and NGOs were banned from raising foreign funds.
The home ministry has identified more than 1,000 poverty pundits who would perhaps have easy access to a combined corpus of over Rs 25,000 crore in CSR funds. A-lister think tanks like the Centre for Policy Research, a habitual habitat of retired senior bureaucrats and defence officers, and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation have been denied permission to canvas for foreign donations because the government thinks they use money and mind power to undermine the legitimate authority of the state and its institutions by influencing policy.
These deluxe charity collaborators and cultural criminals parade with glamorous titles for their charity-for-self initiatives and call themselves “problem solvers”, “innovators” and “creators of pipelines of social leaders”. Most of the ex-bureaucrats were associated with the UPA regime; they designed the narrative against the Modi government. The troika comprising the PM, Amit Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman are constantly monitoring their activities and connection with ideologically opposed sections in business, Bollywood and civil society.
The FCRA registration of over 7,000 NGOs have either been withdrawn or allowed to lapse in the past five years after close financial scrutiny by agencies. Modi’s visible hatred of NGOs stems from their vicious shellacking when he was Gujarat CM during 2002-2014. All the high-profile NGOs promoted by celebs in the media, Bollywood and civil society targeted the state as the hellish haven of Modi, a merciless monster. They filed cases against him, pressured foreign governments to deny him visas for official visits, and even tried to get him arrested. Later investigations uncovered their dastardly designs of using dollars and euros to promote their political agenda, which is to serve disempowered children and women.
Various Sangh parivar affiliates have been complaining about objectionable anti-Hindu and anti-India NGOs operating in parts of India. The Sangh parivar was also peeved over the massive infiltration of NGO-sponsored Leftist intellectuals in the establishment pushing an ‘anti-Hindu’ agenda. While the BJP’s detractors have charged the central government of indulging in vindictive actions and injecting a divisive virus in the system, the saffron group claim that foreign-funded NGOs have to be hunted out to extract Bharat from the Westernised slave mindset.
Modi, soon after becoming PM, trained his merciless lens on their workings. He was shocked to learn that India has the maximum number of NGOs: three million, which means every third NGO is run by an Indian. Delhi alone houses over 75,000. Modi was dismayed to discover that less than 10 percent of them submit their annual reports or balance sheets to the government. Their collective treasure chest comprising foreign largesse holds over Rs 12,000 crore annually. According to information given to parliament, “during 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22, a total of Rs 55,645.08 crore was received by Indian NGOs as foreign contributions”.
Modi swung into action, using the restructured Niti Aayog to introduce the NGO-Darpan platform as an interface between the sarkar and civil society. Over 1.8 lakh NGOs are registered on the platform. The PM’s idea was to monitor their activities and realign them with his agenda and mission. Previously, NGOs were subverting Indian culture and Modi’s dream of Bharat as the Vishwaguru. An unwritten global code of conduct mandated for all NGOs is that they must pass the triple test of transparency, impact and accountability. All genuine NGOs worldwide strictly stick to their code. Nearly all Indian charity charlatans floated by corporate giants or fraudulent altruists ignore these rules. When exposed, they simply float another NGO under a different name.
Indian NGOs are organisationally and financially opaque. Many of them use multi-layer financial channels to hide their real money messiah. They rarely disclose the full details of donors and the terms and conditions on which funds are received. Since these exclusive poverty industry projects are floated and run by well-connected chatterati and glitterati, all accountability is ignored. They hire ideologically compatible employees or individuals nominated by their funders. Most NGOs have been spending more on administration, foreign jaunts, travel and other expensive projects while paying lip service to the causes they officially espouse. Protected by the shroud of secrecy, their impact report isn’t made public; only purple prose papers are issued to pacify their Indian and videshi patrons.
Charity begins at home. Modi is ensuring it ends at home too, by incapacitating anti-national kahunas from crippling BJP's brand of nationalist ideology.
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Slow job market nixes India’s growth story
A major reason for the slow growth in employment is the lack of investment by the private sector.
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Updated on:
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For India there are strong growth indicators. The World Bank has revised its projections for GDP growth to 7.5 percent for 2024, a whopping 1.2 percent above its earlier forecast. Coupled with a projection of 6.1 percent growth for 2025, India comes away as the fastest growing economy in South Asia over the next two years.
In tackling poverty too, NITI Aayog numbers indicate that nearly 25 crore people were lifted up from poverty since 2014, with ‘multidimensional’ poverty declining to 11.3 percent, from 29 percent a decade ago in 2014.
The Achilles heel however appears to be the growing unemployment and inequality. These speed bumps may cripple the country’s transformation into a fully developed economy. In this context, a new World Bank report ‘Jobs for Resilience’,has been highlighted by the Financial Times. The daily points out the target of becoming a developed nation by 2047 – underlined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – may remain a ‘distant dream’ without reforms to boost employment.
No-reform scenario
The World Bank’s chief economist and author of the report, Franziska Ohnsorge,is quoted calling India a “no-reform scenario” where employment growth was exceptionally weak compared to other emerging markets and developing economies.
The report says the employment ratio in India declined by more than in any other south Asian country in the 2000-2022 period, with the exception of Nepal. ‘Employment ratio’ refers to the labour force currently employed against the total working-age population of a region.
“Employment growth has not kept pace with working-age population growth. The region (South Asia) employs only 59 percent of its working-age population compared with 70 percent in other emerging market and developing economies,” says the foreword of the report.
Calling it a “missed opportunity”, Ohnsorge said: “It’s almost like the demographic dividend is being squandered.” She was referring to the large youthful working age population that is a bonus for a country as compared to a very large ageing population which is non-productive and a drag on the economy.
It is indeed startling to learn from the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO), from its India Employment Report 2024, that the youths in the total unemployed pool constituted a massive 83 percent. On the other hand, the size of the elderly is set to rise to over 20 percent of the population by 2050. The point is India has a relatively small window to reap the ‘demographic dividend’ before it enters the cycle of a ageing population.
A major reason for the slow growth in employment is the lack of investment by the private sector. In his foreword to the Resilience in Jobs’ report, Marting Raiser, VP-South Asia Region, points out: “More than elsewhere, growth momentum in South Asia has been driven by the public sector while private investment growth has been weak. Without a thriving private sector, job creation is likely to continue on a weaker path than in other emerging market and developing economies.”
The latest data on private equity deals in India corroborates this. Private equity (PE) investments have fallen to a 6-year low at $24.2 billion in the financial year ending March 2024.Compared to the previous year 2022-23, investments through PE deals are down 47 percent compared to FY23, when deals worth $45.8 billion were signed. Among other reasons, geopolitical uncertainties and volatile conditions had reduced liquidity in the international markets.
Gig economy boom?
The World Bank Report, however, seems to suggest the shift to services and the growth of a large talent pool could provide the employment boost required for the country to turn the corner. “In the services sector, India’s large, well-educated, young, and English-speaking workforce, coupled with a reliable digital infrastructure, has turned the country into a global leader in computer services and business process outsourcing and a global hub for medical services.”
Anecdotal data from the hiring platform, Foundit, seems to support this view that India is witnessing a steep rise in ‘gig employment’ – a free market system in which temporary positions are common and organizations hire independent workers for short-term commitments. There was a rise of 184 percent in white-collar gig jobs this year compared to the previous year says Foundit.
However, casual employment cannot make up for sustained, long-term jobs, and current ground reports seem to point in the opposite direction. The post pandemic period has seen a crumbling of the start-up bastions especially in the edu-tech sector as risk investment has dried up.
These are some pointers that cannot be ignored. The crisis-ridden learning portal Byju’s has recently shed 2,000 employees, as it struggles to pay salaries.Earlier, Paytm, hobbled by directions by the Reserve Bank to cease key operations, has been forced to retrench 20 percent of its staff at its banking unit.
Significantly, 36 percent of IIT Bombay’s 2,000 graduates awaiting placements were not absorbed this year, and are still on the lookout for jobs. This is a slight increase of about 3 percent over the previous year. Though the IIT management has denied the findings of a Hindustan Times survey, there is no denying the job market for even the best equipped has turned sluggish.
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The Gandhi organism has been sponging off its well-publicised involvement of the Freedom Movement and Indira Gandhi giving the Pakis a good thumping in Bangladesh.
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Ravi Shankar
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Humanity feeds off metaphors. Metaphors are the explanatory markers in the development of language. The prevailing political metaphor is the not-so-humble sponge. It soaks up the primeval muck of power politics and regurgitates the phonetic nuances of Indian rajneeti. Coincidentally, the oldest animal on earth is the sponge, a multi-cellular life-form that sucks in oxygen to survive. Like current political ideologies, sponges had no organs, muscles or nervous system. Their only talent was to filter food from water. Apply the sponge allusion to electoral Mahabharatas; water is voters, and the oxygen comes from the mud of rhetoric flung at opponents.
If the oldest profession in the world is prostitution, no relationship implied, the second oldest is being a sponger. Going by the molecular metaphor of political language, everyone is compressing the sponge of oratory ‘foephobia’. The master of metaphors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is determined to squeeze the life out of the Opposition with raids and fiery speeches and turn it into a waterless sponge to be flung back to the ‘boring billion’—the first two billion years of life on Earth when nothing happened and only microbes ruled the pond.
Undoubtedly the shine of Modi’s magnetism comes from hitting up the desires, pride, identity crisis and ideological confusion about an Opposition that offers nothing but pathetic platitudes. The Gandhi organism has been sponging off its well-publicised involvement of the Freedom Movement and Indira Gandhi giving the Pakis a good thumping in Bangladesh. Today’s generation doesn’t give a damn about such achievements; ask a Gen-Z dude what a ‘Navratna’ is and they’ll probably tell you ‘Tanishq’, not one of the PSUs Nehru established.
The top jobs India’s youth aspire to are business managers, marketing managers, software architects, commercial pilots, chartered accountant, data scientists, AI experts and medical professionals. The pay is good, the perks are better and promotions are faster. Which is why consultants are sponging off public funds—they have better expertise. Welfare politics is enjoying the free pastries in the sponge lounge while boosting the corporate world as the parallel alternative: an evolutionary process the Congress began and BJP perfected. Offer religion as a political vocation and they get the cigar. The Opposition’s evolutionary theory is contradictory to evolution: compassion and Nyay does not survive the ruthlessness of the fittest.
Now that the sponge has come a long way and become Homo sapiens—by comparing the DNA sequences of currently live animals, geneticists can trace the evolution of organisms right back to the point when the first lineage split—it is important to flag other sponges too, such as RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary and AAP’s Sushil Rinku who are soaking up the sludge of opportunism. Life has existed on Earth for more than three billion years, with humanity accounting for less than 0.01 per cent of these millennia. Civilisation is a baby on this timescale.
A billion years later starting now, the Sun will expand to make the Earth too hot for life. Maybe the miraculous possibilities of AI will show us what eternity looks like. Use it as the survival sponge that absorbs the best in us and expels the filth—acerbic political campaigns, deep fakes and lost jobs. Mankind needs a new language to relate the bipartisan efforts of political leaderships to beat the Sun at its own game. An effort that goes beyond the miniscule speck of time in humanity’s chronology where we behave like gods. As the Sun god would say, “This ain’t cool.”
Perhaps, but he is moving far far too slowly. Need to curb 1000+/3 months at a minimumTaming the shadowy world of NGOs
Indian NGOs are organisationally and financially opaque. Many of them use multi-layer financial channels to hide their real money messiah.
Taming the shadowy world of NGOs
The conscience industry is one of the pillars of India's crumbling Left liberal edifice. There is nothing like a good cry to get the tears and dollars flowing fwww.newindianexpress.com
prabhu chawla oped is more about NGOs who are frauds. there could be NGOs who are doing all their paperwork and yet working towards destruction of the society.
