FCRA licence Teresa's Missionaries of charity restored
Jan,16,2022 11:21 am (Ist) Posted By: Newsflixall.com
New Delhi: The union government has restored the foreign contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of mother Teresa's organization, Missionaries of charity (MOC), less than a fortnight after it declined the renewal citing "adverse inputs", people familiar with the development said on Saturday.
The FCRA licence, mandatory for receiving and utilising foreign, was restored on Friday after the charity submitted "certain documents", a person familiar with the development said on condition of anonymity.
A spokesperson for MOC said "we had thought that the process might take some time. We never thought it would happen so fast. We are delighted".
The union Home ministry's move on Friday, first reported by the Hindu, coincided with several British MPs raising the Indian government's decision not to renew the registration in the UK's parliament. The MPs asked the Boris Johnson government to take up the matter with india. A political controversy broke out over the centre's December 25 decision. According to the union Home ministry data, the charity, set up by the Nobel peace prize winner in 1950, was among the 5,968 non profits taken out of FCRA ambit in December 2021.
West bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was among the first to launch a blistering attack on the center, accusing the home minister of freezing the bank accounts of the charity headquartered in Kolkata.
The home minister denied the charge, insisting that the catholic religious order and philanthropic organisation requested it's bank to freez the account in vew of the MHA's decision not to renew it's FCRA registration.
In a statement on December 27, the MHA said it FCRA registration, which was initially valid til October 31, 2021 , was extended till December 31 since a decision on its request for renewal was pending.
"However, while considering the MOC's renewal application, some adverse inputs were noticed," it said.
