In late October, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs issued notices to more than 500 nongovernmental organizations in the country, asking them to justify keeping their licenses despite not filing annual returns of their foreign receipts.
Properly filing receipts is one of the requirements of India’s Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act of 2010, and the ministry has been strictly monitoring compliance over the past few years. NGOs that fail to meet this requirement often lose their license to operate.
While not a new development, this latest announcement has only added to the uncertainty over the future of India’s NGOs.