K.N. Pandita
On April 3, 2015 the Times of India made a startling and at the same time very disturbing revelation about fake Indian NGOs. It said that the women and child development (WCD) ministry had found that nearly 90% of around 1,400 NGOs seeking financial grants under a major training and employment scheme were fraudulent.
Top officials in the ministry said applications were invited from NGOs to impart skill development training to women in rural areas under its Support to Training and Employment Programme (STEP) which has a corpus of Rs 30 crore.
“We had received 1,400 to 1,500 applications of which 90% are fake. The scrutiny of applications revealed that most of the NGOs have applied multiple times giving false names and details,” a senior official said.
Many among the fake NGOs had claimed rendering support to the women in Kashmir who were the victims of militancy.
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is not-for-profit; it is independent from states and international governmental organizations. That is what the rules of Charitable Societies Act say.
According to information received through RTI queries by Asian Centre for Human Rights, the Union and State governments between 2002-09 released Rs 6654 crore to various NGOs, averaging almost Rs 950 crore per year.For the financial year 2010-11, available data show that about 22,000 NGOs received a total of more than $2 billion from abroad, of which $650 million came from the US.
NGOs are highly diverse groups of organizations engaged in a wide range of activities, and take different forms in different parts of the world. Some may have charitable status, while others may be registered for tax exemption based on recognition of social purposes. Others may be fronts for political, religious, or other interests.
The number of NGOs in the world wide is estimated at 3.7 million. Russia has 277,000 NGOs. India is estimated to have around 2 million NGOs in 2009, just over one NGO per 600 Indians, and many times the number of primary schools and primary health centres in India. An NGO’s level of operation indicates the scale at which an organization works, such as local, regional, national, or international.
NGO is a very exhaustive subject and I do not intend to go into that discussion. I have myself been working with an African NGO in Geneva for a long time. As such I fully know the true ins and outs of NGOs and human rights organizations.
Most of the NGOs working with various subsidiaries of the United Nations are, by and large, supported directly or indirectly by Governments. Their interventions in the deliberations of various UN bodies are essentially meant to lend support to the Government policy without mentioning it. It is extremely rare to find an impartial and independent NGO. That is the reason why we used to call those NGOs as GONGOs meaning Government Non-Government Organizations..
Some of the well reputed international NGOs often quoted by concerned parties and Governments like Amnesty International and World Watch, have come under serious criticism of countries and organizations for very partisan or parochial reports. However, since they are financially very strong and are based in powerful countries with strong political clout at the UN, they have been able to garner credibility with interested parties.
In our country, most of the NGOs are not only fake and fraudulent, but are used as propagators of the interests of our adversaries especially China and Pakistan. We know of so many so-called NGOs who have been advocating causes and issues that are highly detrimental to the interests of the country.
In a judgment of March 2013, the Delhi High Court had called for toughening of licensing norms for NGOs observing that 99% of them are “fraud” and “merely money making devices”. It went on to day, “Most private run so called philanthropic organizations do not understand their social responsibilities. 99% of the existing NGOs are fraud and simply moneymaking devices. Only one out of every hundred NGOs serve the purpose they are set up for”, a bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog said.
Again, The Hindu reported that in a judgment Madras High Court Bench said that “it was high time for the State Government to crack down on fake human rights organizations which “blackmail Government officials and the general public by printing names of former judges and retired police officers on their letter pads to give credence to their activities.” The court observed. “Their job is to poke their noses into employer-employee disputes and demand hefty amounts from the employers for settling the matters.”
Especially after the seditionists and traitors in Kashmir launched armed uprising in 1990, one of the important and powerful weapons used by ISI was to engage or even enroll Indian NGOs for furthering the cause of the traitors. We are reminded of the role of Teesta Setalwad and her NGO which the CBI found to have been indulging in massive financial irregularities and sometimes working on the behest of the political party in power. Hundreds of thousands of such NGOs and so-called human rights activists have inflicted unimaginable damage upon our country.
I will not go into details though I would very much like to. Owing to paucity of space, I confine my observations to one incident only, which is an eye-opener for those who are not aware of the anti-national role some of these NGOs are playing. Under the Congress rule these NGOs were emboldened to the extent that they never filled their income tax returns and never disclosed the sources from where they received funding. It happened so because their clandestine activities were shielded by the ruling circles.
We have heard the name of Arundhati Roy, the human rights activists running an NGO She is known all over the country as anti-Hindu and anti-BJP activist. She is one of the fiercest supporters of the seditionists and traitors of Kashmir. She has made a dent in some of the well-known print and electronic media outlets in the country that publish her anti-national writings with much gusto.
In connection with her cherished penchant for championing the cause of Kashmir seditionists and traitors, she has been writing to the NSA Ajit Doval, a profusion of accusing letters and projecting herself as the rights activists. A rare response to her from the NSA will open the eyes of our readers what she is doing and what the Government knows. I reproduce this correspondence here for the information of our readers and they will be able to judge the entire matter for themselves.
Correspondence
9/26/16, 10:40:28 AM: ?+91 94191 36581?: Arundhati Roy wrote a lot of letters to the National Security Council (India), complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter correspondence. She received back the following reply:
National Security Advisor
South Block, Raisina Hill,
New Delhi-110011
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the ISIS and LeT terrorists captured by Indian Forces who were subsequently transferred to National Correctional System facilities. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in New Delhi. You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called ‘Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers’ program, or L.A.R.K. for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Mumbai next Monday.
Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint! It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter. Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his ‘attitudinal problem’ will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences.
We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling.’ Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. Please advise any friends, neighbors or relatives as your house guest might get agitated or even violent, but we are sure you can reason with him. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him
Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a sub human form of property thereby having no rights, including refusal of his sexual demands. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will “recommend” as more appropriate attire. I’m sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of ‘respecting his culture and religious beliefs’ as described in your letter.
Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember we’ll be watching.
Good luck and God bless you
Cordially,
Ajit Doval
National Security Advisor
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