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New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has released a list of 117 United Nations bodies and other international organizations whose contribution to Indian entities will not be covered under the stringent Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, officials said.
Indian organizations receiving foreign funds are mandatorily registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 and they must have a special account at a designated branch of the State Bank of India in New Delhi.
According to a home ministry document, the UN agencies and other international bodies and organizations “to be not covered” by the definition of “foreign source” under the FCRA include the UN System’s Secretariat, Office of Internal Oversight Services, Department of Political Affairs, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Department for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services.
The United Nations Office at Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ), Geneva, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), New York, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNClAD), Geneva were also not covered under the FCRA.
The UNICEF, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations International Drug Control Programme, United Nations Population Fund, World Food Programme, Rome, Economic Commission for Europe, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic Commission for Western Asia were also excluded by the FCRA mandate.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Geneva, Global Environment Facility, Washington, International Labor Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, UNESCO, World Health Organization will also not be covered under the FCRA.
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Monetary Fund, International Finance Corporation, International Rice Research Institute, Manila, International Potato Centre, Peru, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Vienna, International Solar Alliance were also part of the 117 organizations which were excluded from the ambit of the FCRA.
Since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014, rules related to the FCRA have been tightened. The government has also canceled FCRA registration of nearly 2,000 NGOs for violating various provisions of law in last few years. There were 22,762 FCRA-registered organizations till December-end 2021.
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