The FCRA Amendment-2020 Bill proposes to decrease the percentage up to which Administrative expenses of FCRA-NGOs is allowed. Earlier, it was 50%. The new proposal is to reduce it to 20%.
Let us see which FCRA-NGOs could get affected. In the following, we examine the 2018-19 FC4 returns of FCRA-NGOs in Delhi and identify those FCRA-NGOs who had reported administrative expense for that year to be greater than 30% of their ‘Total Foreign Contribution’ for that year.
Only those FCRA-NGOs which have received or whose administrative cost is higher than Rs. 1 Crore are covered in this Post.
Based on the Table below, we strongly suspect the activities of Muneer Social Welfare Society.
We also feel that Action Aid will strongly express its displeasure on the reported move. So will CBGA (of which Shri. Amitabh Behar is listed as Secretary on its website).
In our humble opinion, the so-called Industrial Global Union will also have to do a lot of real work to reduce its administrative burden.
All amounts in Table are provided as they appear in the 2018-19 FC4 return on the FCRA website. Do not point to us as to how the administrative expense of Muneer Social Welfare Society can be higher than its total FC.
Acknowledgements: We thank the FCRA Wing of MHA for providing online the FCRA returns, without having to use the ill-purposed RTI Act.
FCRA-NGO | Location | Registration No. | Total Administrative expenses (Rs.) | Total Foreign Contribution (Rs.) | Admin Exp/Total FC (%) | Chief Functionary | Activities |
| Muneer Social Welfare Society | Delhi | 231650932 | 8,13,46,513 | 36,18,910 | 2248 | Asad Masih | Child Development in Purba Medinipur, & Social Welfare in Bankura, WB |
| Appropriate Technology India | Delhi | 231650996 | 1,19,58,465 | 2,08,05,340 | 57.48 | Bimal Kumar Saini | Sericulture, Beekeeping in Dehradun |
| Action Aid Association | Delhi | 231661299 | 20,34,79,950 | 49,17,13,969 | 41.4 | Sandeep Chachra | Community Development etc all over India, particularly in Odisha |
| CDH International Foundation India | Delhi | 231660784 | 16,53,292 | 41,57,661 | 39.77 | Chandi Duke Heffner | Community Welfare in Vrindavan, UP |
| Industriall Global Union | Delhi | 231650080 | 1,68,86,750 | 4,24,97,600 | 39.74 | Apoorva Kaiwar | Training on Occupational Health & Safey |
| Ecoles de la Terre Welfare Society | Delhi | 231661542 | 42,22,918 | 1,08,65,499 | 38.87 | Rajesh Kumar | Educational |
| Indian Olympic Associaton | Delhi | 231660271 | 6,24,83,449 | 16,27,58,341 | 38.39 | Rajeev Mehta | Games, Training |
| Vision Foundation for Development Management | Delhi | 231650950 | 91,07,809 | 2,41,65,563 | 37.7 | Ranjan Mohapatra | To secure land rights in Gajapati, Odisha |
| Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society | Delhi | 231660995 | 36,48,904 | 1,01,73,309 | 35.87 | SB Talwar | Disabled/ Oldage homes |
| Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | Delhi | 231661020 | 1,34,73,297 | 3,97,90,688 | 33.86 | Subrat Das | Social Project (Vague) |
| Delhi Network of Positive People | Delhi | 231661097 | 1,16,77,267 | 3,56,34,105 | 32.77 | Henminlun | HIV/Hepatitis |
| Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation | Delhi | 231661087 | 48,55,725 | 1,49,11,791 | 32.56 | Archana Agarwal | Rural Development in Haryana & Bihar |
| Indian Head Injury Foundation | Delhi | 231661201 | 42,41,680 | 1,31,62,664 | 32.22 | HH Maharaja Gaj Singh Jodhpur | Unknown |
| Sightlife India | Delhi | 231661775 | 1,26,22,104 | 4,12,89,478 | 30.57 | Jugesh Pal Singh | Eye Bank, Advocacy |
| The Special Child Trust | Delhi | 231661556 | 1,17,32,157 | 3,83,79,573 | 30.67 | Sameer Nayar | Unknown |
(This article was first published on the fcraanalyses.blogspot.com on 21 September, 2020 and is being reproduced here with permission.)
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