Centre cancels FCRA registration of NGO Centre for Financial Accountability that works on environment, human rights https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-cancels-fcra-registration-of-ngo-centre-for-financial-accountability-that-works-on-environment-human-rights/article68390461.ece/amp/ CFA said they were yet to receive the orders cancelling the FCRA registration of CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement), but they had been informed online. CFA is one of the projects of CACIM.
In a recent report, the CFA had highlighted how additional projects sanctioned in a Special Economic Zone operated by the Adani Group in the Kutch region of Gujarat “will compound environmental hazards and increase the health risks for the people while further polluting the environment and accelerating degradation of the ecology.”
In December 2023, the CFA organised an online meeting with the All-India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) to discuss the issues faced by public sector banks and the road ahead.
"The Nail That Stick Out Gets Hammered". That seems to be the mantra of the present regime as the hammer has been falling on any and every voice of dissent.
Centre cancels FCRA Registration of NGO Centre for Financial Accountability
“We are not going to get bogged down by such actions. We will continue our work. We recognise that the government wanted to throttle our work. We will find innovative ways to carry forward our work.." said Joe Athialy, Executive Director, CFA.
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Hours earlier Athialy told The Hindu that they had been told that the FCRA licence cancellation is over the fact that the Institute had made incorrect income tax return filings for the financial years 2018 and 2019. To The Wire, he said that this was no reason at all.
“What if in the corporate world, one corporation’s filings contain a mistake – does the firm get shut down? No, right? This is part of this regime’s special treatment for NGOs – you commit one small mistake and the entire thing is shut down,” he says.