NEW DELHI: The foreign funding licences of more than 20,600 NGOs and associations have been cancelled from 2011 till date over violation of different provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010, and rules made thereunder, the home ministry told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Most cancellations were on account of failure to file annual returns.
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a question, said FCRA registration of 1,810 NGOs were cancelled in the last three years from 2018 to 2020. Also, FCRA certificates were not renewed for 8,353 NGOs since 2016, including 463 in 2020 alone. The licences of 25 NGOs were suspended last year under Section 13 of FCRA, up from five in 2019 but much less than 233 in 2018, the home ministry said.