{"id":210392,"date":"2022-10-13T20:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210392"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:45:42","slug":"donors-r-us-its-absurd-that-police-confuses-online-crowdfunding-with-begging-stop-fraud-not-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/donors-r-us-its-absurd-that-police-confuses-online-crowdfunding-with-begging-stop-fraud-not-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors R Us: It\u2019s absurd that police confuses online crowdfunding with begging. Stop fraud not charity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Donors R Us: It\u2019s absurd that police confuses online crowdfunding with begging. Stop fraud not charity<\/strong><strong>\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India <\/strong>on <strong>13th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Development process and development industry<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the issue related to the new phenomena of crowdfunding for charitable purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Recently a show-cause notice was served on a crowdfunding platform. The Bombay high court has asked the state to answer whether private organizations are permitted to do online crowdfunding for medical treatments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should government agencies not discourage crowdfunding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crowdfunding has very diversified interests in the world today. It\u2019s a very competitive sector. So, using images of children for children causes to appeal to potential donors is understandable. It is not begging.<\/p>\n<p>Their business helped many families pay medical bills during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>India has gross inequalities and poor health services. Crowdfunding can help deprived families in many ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What measures should be taken by different stakeholders to stop the fraudulent practices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Complaints of fraud should be seriously investigated. It should be punished through IPC provisions against criminal breach of trust and cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Donors should do due diligence while making contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cDonors R Us: It\u2019s absurd that police confuses online crowdfunding with begging. Stop fraud not charity\u201d published in The Times of India on 13th October 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Development process and development industry News- The article explains the issue related to the new phenomena of crowdfunding for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/donors-r-us-its-absurd-that-police-confuses-online-crowdfunding-with-begging-stop-fraud-not-charity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donors R Us: It\u2019s absurd that police confuses online crowdfunding with begging. Stop fraud not charity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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-210392","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":1704690062},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210392","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}