{"id":156986,"date":"2021-12-29T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=156986"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:18:37","slug":"step-motherly-is-the-denial-of-fcra-renewal-for-the-mother-teresa-founded-ngo-at-all-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/step-motherly-is-the-denial-of-fcra-renewal-for-the-mother-teresa-founded-ngo-at-all-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Motherly? Is the denial of FCRA renewal for the Mother Teresa founded NGO at all justified?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">News<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">: <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Missionaries of Charity (MoC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), an NGO founded by Mother Teresa has been denied the renewal of its FCRA registration by the home ministry.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It should be noted that the FCRA registration is mandatory for any NGO or association to receive foreign funds or donations. MHA is the controlling authority of FCRA, and it conducts inspections and audits of NGOs to establish if their books are in order.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/impact-of-new-fcra-rules-on-relief-work-of-ngos-explained-pointwise\/\">Impact of new FCRA rules on relief work of NGOs &#8211; Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why is this refusal under criticism?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The government has given the reason for refusal as the <strong>presence of adverse inputs<\/strong>, while the FCRA rules only allows this refusal in case NGOs are involved in activities detrimental to the national interest<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span> <span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>What are the allegations faced by MoC?<\/h5>\n<p>A key suspicion it faces today can be seen in the <strong>FIR filed against one of MoC\u2019s children\u2019s homes in Vadodara<\/strong> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>This followed <strong>allegations of religious conversions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What have been previous instances of NGO facing charges under this law?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amnesty International exited the country last year as a result of facing issues regarding flow of its finances.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why are the challenges posed by these restrictions?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Services of NGOs are invaluable in a country where the state isn\u2019t always there for everyone.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">NGOs serve the most needy, so it should be ensured that they don\u2019t have to face administrative bottlenecks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Step Motherly? Is the denial of FCRA renewal for the Mother Teresa founded NGO at all justified?<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Times of India<\/strong> on<strong> 28<sup>th<\/sup> Dec 2021<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Missionaries of Charity (MoC), an NGO founded by Mother Teresa has been denied the renewal of its FCRA registration by the home ministry.\u00a0 It should be noted that the FCRA registration is mandatory for any NGO or association to receive foreign funds or donations. MHA is the controlling authority of FCRA, and it conducts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/step-motherly-is-the-denial-of-fcra-renewal-for-the-mother-teresa-founded-ngo-at-all-justified\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step Motherly? Is the denial of FCRA renewal for the Mother Teresa founded NGO at all justified?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-156986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704778520},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}