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Govt gives 30 days' time to erring NGOs to file returns

The government is estimated to have cancelled the licences of nearly 7,500 NGOs after they failed to disclose their annual returns with income and expenditure statements.

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Hundreds of NGOs whose licences were suspended have been given a window of 30 days by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to file their returns for the last five years and thus get back to work by renewing their licences.

The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) division of the ministry had suspended registration of all such NGOs which had applied for the renewal of registration under the Act but not uploaded their annual returns from financial year 2010-11 to 2014-15.

"All such NGOs can upload their missing annual returns along with the requisite documents within a period of 30 days, starting from May 15 to June 14, 2017," the ministry said asking the NGOs to treat it as the last opportunity.

No compounding fee will be imposed on them for late filing of annual returns during this period, the ministry said, adding that this exemption was a one-time measure available only to those NGOs who missed the opportunity to upload their returns from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

The government is estimated to have cancelled the licences of nearly 7,500 NGOs after they failed to disclose their annual returns with income and expenditure statements.

The scheme is not applicable to about 1,3350-odd NGos whose registrations have been cancelled by the ministry for violating various provisions of the FCRA.

In November 2016, the government had directed more than 11,000 NGOs to file applications for renewal of registration by February 28, 2017.

However, only 3,500 NGOs had filed applications for renewal while the registration of more than 7,000 NGOs were deemed expired due to non-filing.

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