India: FCRA nod for Missionaries of Charity restored by Rahul Sadhukhan/Pacific press
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on January 7 restored the FCRA registration of Missionaries of Charity (MoC), the Catholic religious congregation set up by Nobel laureate Mother Teresa.
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration is mandatory to receive foreign donations.
The move comes just days after the Ministry issued a statement that the FCRA registration of the MoC was not renewed as “some adverse inputs were noticed”.
The registration was renewed, making MoC eligible to receive and utilize foreign funds in its bank accounts even as the U.K Parliament debated the issue, seeking to know if the British government had raised the issue of blocking of overseas funds of the MoC and other NGOs with India.
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