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Vijay Sardana Memorial Lecture May 6, 2019

Summary of the lecture by Mathew Cherian Is financial viability of the Voluntary Sector a mirage? The way forward PART-III ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY We need to open our financials to scrutiny to the smallest donor, reporting bodies and to be … Continue reading

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Vijay Sardana Memorial Lecture May 6, 2019

Summary of the lecture by Mathew Cherian Is financial viability of the Voluntary Sector a mirage? The way forward PART-II The common thread is LOCAL vs INTERNATIONAL FUNDING. Out of the 3.1 million organisations, merely 50,000 organisations are the struggling … Continue reading

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Vijay Sardana Memorial Lecture May 6, 2019

Summary of the lecture by Mathew Cherian Is financial viability of the Voluntary Sector a mirage? The way forward PART-I To begin with I would like to thank SRRF for the honour of inviting me to deliver the first Vijay … Continue reading

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Can an organization receive FCRA Grant before prior permission.

Dear All, I would like to know about the FCRA Grant receiving before permission, A organization applied for FCRA permission on July 2018 and received approved on March 2019, Can organization allowed to received FCRA Grant for the period of … Continue reading

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Registration to Darpan portal is now Optional

Vide a public notice of 04th October 2017, FCRA department had made Darpan ID mandatory for all NGOs seeking any FCRA related services. Till now anyone to undertake any activity  on online portal of FCRA, including filing of Annual Return … Continue reading

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Amendments in Trust Deed

Dear Members, We are an NGO registered in Trichy, Tamilnadu. The founder trustee resigned and as a result I (Dr.Uma) ‎became the managing trustee henceforth. The Supplementary Deed was registered in Trichy district Sub-Registrar ‎office. Pl. clarify the following. Should … Continue reading

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Can one FCRA Holder/NGO be able to send money to another NGO with FCRA Registration?

Dear Respected Friends, Greetings and New Year Wishes to you and to all SRRF team from Isaac Arulappan, Founder – Director of NGO namely Deva Kirubai Social Help Association managing an orphanage namely CORNERSTONE in a Village Mullippadi, Manapparai in … Continue reading

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Is legislative framework against sustainability in NPOs

Dear Members, ‎ I am working on registering a not-for-profit which will involve itself into research activities in ‎technology. The outcomes will be mostly public goods, in terms of papers, open source code, etc. ‎At the same time, it may … Continue reading

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Last Date for Filing FCRA Return for FY 2017-18 extended to 31-March-2019

FCRA Dept made DARPAN ID mandatory for filing FCRA Annual Return (FC-4) for all organization, although several NGOs could not generate Unique ID from the Darpan website. FCRA Dept has now stated that on representation made by various NGOs facing … Continue reading

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FCRA Registration suspended of 156 NGOs whose have not migrated to PFMS

In Dec’17 FCRA Department had ordered NGOs to open their FCRA bank account with the banks integrated with Govt PFMS system within one month of its notice dated 21/12/2017. Most NGOs opened or shifted their bank account to PFMS compliant … Continue reading

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