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Namaste! As I remarked to the authors of that Devex article y& #39;day, it is one of the more decent articles on the topic. However, it doesn& #39;t do full justice to the problem that our Nation faces due to #FCRA enabled advocacy, demographic-change, NatSecCompromises etc. due +
1/n https://twitter.com/veenas_water/status/1388434554575196160">https://twitter.com/veenas_wa...
1/n https://twitter.com/veenas_water/status/1388434554575196160">https://twitter.com/veenas_wa...
+majorly to the authors& #39; own ignorance of the holistic picture of FCRA. Some factoids Ma& #39;m @veenas_water
(1) Indian & #39;civil society& #39;, i.e., foreign funded NGOs, i.e., #FCRA-NGOs receive ~USD 2.5 Billion p.a., 40% of which comes from USA, 9.5% from UK, 9% from Germany etc. 2/n
(1) Indian & #39;civil society& #39;, i.e., foreign funded NGOs, i.e., #FCRA-NGOs receive ~USD 2.5 Billion p.a., 40% of which comes from USA, 9.5% from UK, 9% from Germany etc. 2/n
+But Wait! In 2011-12, the intra-India FC transfers (what the FCRA Wing calls as Secondary Transfers and the & #39;Civil Society& #39; calls as & #39;Sub-Granting& #39;) was estimated to be ~9-10% of the total inflows. See this seminal Post http://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com/2014/07/intra-india-fund-flows-interest-earned.html">https://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com/2014/07/i...
However, per MoS(H) reply in 3/n
However, per MoS(H) reply in 3/n
+Rajya Sabha to Q. No. 304 in the recent session, the magnitude of Intra-India Transfer had ballooned to 13.3%, making India #2 in the & #39;Granting Countries& #39; List. Ridiculous, no? Every time I tell this to handles who ask me this doubt on & #39;How does India figure in the foreign 4/n
+ "donors" list?& #39;, they get zapped. Trust me, for my followers can testify to my deep interests & & #39;knowledge& #39; (fwiw) on this matter. Being inside the FCRA system has made the FCRA honchos immune to logic & common sense, I& #39;m sorry to say. A consequence of this & #39;sub-granting& #39; is5/n
+the enormous muscle that Delhi based FCRA-NGOs have gained, with absolutely ZERO intrinsic presence on the Ground. Take the case of National Foundation for India-Delhi, #FCRA-NGO, DL/231650642. NFI& #39;s Closing FD balance on Mar31,2019 was Rs. 35.77Crore, while the total fresh 6/n
+foreign fund inflow in 2018-19 itself was just Rs. 8.4 Crore, ALL of which NFI transferred to 170 FCRA-NGOs all across Desh. So, what actually does NFI do, on its own? Is this not a legitimate question to ask, Ma& #39;m @veenas_water ? You know what Ma& #39;m? If an anon twitter 7/n
+handle has to write these and none of the so-called & #39;Development Experts& #39; have EVER mentioned these? What that tells is these stakeholders aren& #39;t entirely telling the truth (i.e., if they know it). Nor do the Neo & #39;Philanthropy researchers& #39; of our Nation. Let us get back to+
+discussion (sorry for digressing). This intra-India transfer has created an Ugly, Menacing Demon in New Delhi (a place I wish our Nation& #39;s capital moved out of -- sooner the better for all of us, incl. for Delhi). Delhi has only 1500 FCRA-NGOs (compare to TN which has 3200!) +
+Yet, Delhi& #39;s FCRA-NGOs received 25% of the total Direct FC inflows for 2018-19. See our analyses http://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com/2020/10/foreign-donations-inflow-to-fcra-ngos.html">https://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com/2020/10/f... ; So, in a sense, this lop-sided & #39;growth& #39; of Delhi& #39;s & #39;Civil Society& #39; has created a set of people/entities +
+whose entitlement is Unbounded, who know no Laws of our Nation, who are emboldened and fattened by ever-flowing $$s, all of which they conduit to the hinterlands, while sitting cosily on the Bank FD Corpus from past FC inflows and doing the European Seminar Circuit in +
+the summers. Just today, a EU-India Peoples Summit started (May 1-8, 2021); Check the Speakers& #39; List and Agenda online & you cannot but agree with what I& #39;m saying. If I may borrow the lingo the & #39;Civil Society& #39; is fond of using: Why are the hinterland #FCRA-NGOs not being+
+empowered by Direct Benefit Transfer from the Foreign & #39;Donor& #39;? Why humor the intermediary in Delhi? What is this intermediary& #39;s role? Are the Delhi FCRA-NGOs faithfully reproducing the Native Opinions? A corollary is: Why does the Foreign & #39;Donor& #39; hesitate to directly & #39;donate& #39;+
+to the hinterland? Why can& #39;t the foreign & #39;entity& #39; open a Liason Office here? (So many Breaking India foreign entities have opened FEMA compliant Liason offices over the past few years; so, why can& #39;t more do so & work with the vast number of small FCRA-NGOs?). Are the +
+FCRA intermediaries really working as Fiduciaries? Nah. Evidence speaks otherwise. Check out Posts on http://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com"> http://fcraanalyses.blogspot.com & http://indiahap.wordpress.com"> http://indiahap.wordpress.com
3) Coming to the instant case of ATREE, KA/94420739, I notice that it has not done any secondary FC transfer in 2018-19 +
3) Coming to the instant case of ATREE, KA/94420739, I notice that it has not done any secondary FC transfer in 2018-19 +
+vide your FC4, although small sums have been reported by 3 FCRA-NGOs to have been received from ATREE in 2018-19. These being: 1)SM Sehgal Foundation-Gurgaon, HR/172270076 (Rs. 6.8lakh), 2)Foundation for Ecol. Security, DL/231660521 (Rs. 1.0 lakh) & 3) CAF-DL/231660165(Rs. 25L)+
+These are relatively small sums, which those FCRA-NGOs could have easily gotten from the foreign & #39;donors& #39; directly & needn& #39;t have had to depend on ATREE.
(III) The third revelation (for many; not for my followers who are the most intelligent species on Earth) is that +
(III) The third revelation (for many; not for my followers who are the most intelligent species on Earth) is that +
+FCRA-NGOs are already sitting on a Cash Pile of USD 2.5 Billion in their Bank Fixed Deposits, which is their accumulated, Unspent money from past FC Inflows. If this pandemic requires money (I don& #39;t agree that it requires money as much as it requires materials & skilled ppl, +
