Union Home Ministry restores FCRA license of Missionaries of Charity

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on January 7 restored the FCRA registration of Missionaries of Charity (MoC), the Catholic spiritual congregation arrange by Mother Teresa. This was achieved after the NGO submitted the mandatory paperwork to the involved division.

MHA restores FCRA registration for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity after it submitted the mandatory doc to involved division: Govt Sources

Earlier, MHA refused to resume the Mother Teresa-founded NGO’s licence resulting from some “adverse inputs”.

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The MHA had earlier on December 27, 2021, refused to resume the Mother Teresa-founded NGO’s FCRA licence resulting from some adversarial inputs. Many together with the West Bengal Chief Minister had expressed outrage for allegedly freezing the financial institution accounts of the Kolkata primarily based NGO, which was not right.

“22,000 patients and employees have been left without food and medicines. While the law is paramount, humanitarian efforts must not be compromised”, she had mentioned. The MHA had nevertheless refuted this declare saying that no accounts of the NGO have been frozen. Missionaries of Charity had additionally clarified that they themselves had frozen its accounts after their FCRA licence was not renewed, saying that the identical was not cancelled as alleged.

The MHA has now renewed the registration, making MoC eligible to obtain and utilise overseas funds in its financial institution accounts. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration is obligatory to obtain overseas donations.

The modification to the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 seeks to reinforce transparency, accountability and to strengthen the compliance mechanism whereas permitting the real NGOs to proceed working for the welfare of the society. There are round 16000 NGOs whose FCRA registration is presently energetic.