By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Union House Ministry has cancelled the FCRA licence of 2 NGOs — Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Apne Aap Ladies International (AAWW) — for allegedly violating regulations and diverting finances gained from in a foreign country, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
The NGOs allegedly didn’t record annual monetary returns mandated underneath the Overseas Contribution Law Act 2010, they mentioned.
The House Ministry has additionally discovered that the NGOs allegedly diverted finances gained as overseas donations, the officers mentioned. The CHRI works within the box of realisation of other people’s elementary human proper to get entry to data from executive and different public our bodies in Commonwealth international locations, in step with its website online.
The CHRI’s additionally works on police reforms programme that objectives to grasp greater call for for rights-based police reform and the strengthening of police duty within the Commonwealth, it mentioned.
The AAWW was once co-founded through 22 girls from a red-light district in Mumbai, with a shared imaginative and prescient of a global the place no girl can be purchased or offered and finish intercourse trafficking, the NGO’s website online mentioned.
The federal government has cancelled the FCRA registration of just about 1,900 NGOs for violating quite a lot of provisions of regulation within the final 5 years –between 2017 and 2021.
