: Modi government’s auditors are questioning NGOs about their Muslim employees and beneficiaries #IndiaNEWS Hundreds of Indian non-governmental organisations are in the midst of unprecedented audits

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Modi government’s auditors are questioning NGOs about their Muslim employees and beneficiaries #IndiaNEWS
Hundreds of Indian non-governmental organisations are in the midst of unprecedented audits by the government, triggering fears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government – well known for its antipathy towards the non-profit sector – will eventually use its audit findings in actions or reprisals against specific organisations.At least since January, government auditors have been paying visits to NGO offices, staying 10-14 days on each occasion to comb through financial records. In several cases, according to interviews with executives and accountants in the non-profit sector, the visiting auditors also asked pointed questions about Muslim employees and beneficiaries, and about the political allegiances of NGO staff.Roughly 22,000 NGOs are currently licensed to receive foreign donations. Later this year, most of these NGOs have to apply to renew their licences under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act, a clunky and often ambiguous piece of legislation. “Naturally there is a huge amount of anxiety across the sector that, at the moment of renewal, these audits could be used in some kind of vendetta,� said Amitabh Behar, the CEO of Oxfam India.In 2018-’19, Indian NGOs received Rs 16,300 crore (.2 billion) in foreign donations. Last September, the Modi government, forever suspicious of “foreign hands� meddling in Indian affairs, amended the FCRA law to restrict...Read more

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