Articles
FCRA Accounts
Dt: 24/9/2014
FCRA Accounts
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Every year thousands of NGOs in India are receiving billions of rupees in foreign currency from foreign countries. As recently brought out by the Intelligence Bureau ( IB) many NGOs are not submitting accounts as required by law and rules. Many are engaged in anti-Indian, anti-social activities like conversion to Christianity, mobilising the uninformed masses against every development project and disaffecting them from India’s culture and integrity.
2. It is necessary to see that the remittances to India from foreign sources are put to the use which the NGos have listed in their Memorandum and Articles of Association and not for purposes which are against the security integrity of India and harmony among its people.
3. At present, the NGOs take registration from the Registrar of Societies /Trusts ; go to the Income Tax Department and get tax exemption for their “philanthropic” and “social activities” as enumerated in their Articles of Association. Then they go to the Home Ministry and get a registration under the FCRA rules.
4. None of these three authorities is having knowledge of what appeals these NGOs are making to the donors abroad for getting the contributions. For eg. NGOs with high sounding names like World Vision engaged ostensibly in humanitarian services as mentioned in its Articles of Association and in their application to the Income Tax authorities for tax exemption are known to be appealing to foreign Churches and missionaries for funds to build Churches and propagate Christianity . The foreign contributors believe these and are sending millions of dollars .
5. The communications from these NGos to the foreign donors are not in the knowledge of any government authority. That is how the NGOs engaged in proselytisation are thriving.
6. There is a simple measure to stop the fraud . Amend the law to prevent this. The amendment should require the following:
· All foreign funds should come to a government agency, into this account under different heads of service/activity, the NGOs state in their Registration.
· For eg. if an NGO is engaged in flood relief or education of Tribals or care of the aged for each such activity there must be separate head of account in the financial institution that is created to receive funds from foreign sources meant for NGOs in India.
· The amounts received should be disbursed by this agency to the NGO named for the purpose by the foreign donor. In other words, money should not go straight from the foreign source to the NGO . It should go only through the special institution which can then monitor who is getting how much and all this must be required to be audited both for financial accounts as well as the purpose; that is, whether spending conforms to the stated aims and objectives of the NGO.
· A copy of every solicitation the NGO made to receive foreign funds must be sent by the appealing NGO and the donor must cite this and furnish this along with the donation to the special body set up by MHA.
7. This is the only way Government of India can check the immoral, unethical and illegal and subversive activities of some NGOs, especially those which are stooges of foreign forces trying to break up India by fomenting internal strife, through conversions and opposition to all development projects to keep India poor so that they can have a thriving business in conversion.
Dt: 12/6/15
FCRA funds misuse – Construction of unauthorised buildings as Churches
Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs is taking decisive action against those NGOs who have been in violation of the law and its rules. After due notice it is cancelling the licences issued under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).
2. In Andhra Pradesh various Christian missionaries with funds from NGO allied to them have constructed about 50,000 Churches of different denominations. This construction is in execution of the Project Joshua which envisaged the planting of Churches in India first in the last ten years alone within cycling distance, then within walking distance and finally within hearing distance . In Andhra Pradesh the Joshua project is in the third phase.
3. It appears that most of these church buildings have no approvals from the local authorities (Panchayat or Municipality). The sources of the money with which these are constructed and in whose name these properties and in what category (residence, Business; religious) they are registered are not known.
4. In the context of the Project Joshua which envisages the conversion of Hindus to Christianity, billions of rupees had come to Andhra Pradesh alone to missionaries and their allied NGOs. In fact, this activity is part of the project to break up India by creating disquiet and strife between various sections of the people through religious minorities ranged against majority.
5. As the intentions and the acts are very serious, the Income Tax Department and the Intelligence Bureaus of the Home Ministry in the States and the Center should survey these “Churches” to establish when they were constructed, what was the cost of this, in whose name and under what category of use they are registered and whether there is any approval to such buildings and how many of them are there in each village or town or city. This may be huge task but it is necessary in order to have an estimate of the internationally funded Indian society breaking activity .
6. As this church -building activity has been and is intense in in Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu, the state governments may be asked to come out with a White Paper bearing upon all the points raised in para (5) above.
7. In A.P an NGO PARA- People’s Alliance for Rural Awakening perhaps Head Quartered in Madurai Tamilnadu and having a local office in Ravulapalem, East Godavari District is indoctrinating teachers in government and other schools in the guise of making them aware of human rights. It got the District Education Officer of Khammam (Telangana) to issue a letter to government schools to depute teachers for a class on human rights. They brought out a book –Vivakshata. Its contents incite disaffection with the Indian society which is characterised as unmindful of human rights, especially of Dalits and Tribals and poor people. The speakers of PARA who conducted the class for teachers ( of government schools) were Christians. They singled our Hindu society for Vivaksha ( discrimination) so that the attendees get disaffected.
This organisation PARA and its activities and its funds deserve to be investigated.