Govt blacklists 600 NGOs
Cracking its whip on fake and ghost non-government organisations, the Rural Development Ministry has ordered blacklisting of 600 NGOs, lodging FIRs against 21 others and handing over 10 cases to CBI.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Cracking its whip on fake and ghost non-government organisations, the Rural Development Ministry has ordered blacklisting of 600 NGOs, lodging FIRs against 21 others and handing over 10 cases to CBI.
"We have to stop the scam involving public money," Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh told reporters here.
He said efforts by his ministry to stem the rot had led to some amount of correction in the functioning of the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), which funded the NGOs.
Singh said in view of numerous complaints there was a proposal before the Government at one point of time to scrap the scheme. However, the proposal was dropped.
The tough action against the NGOs came in the wake of reports that around 4,000 files pertaining to unaccounted funds had gone missing. The Government is reportedly planning a major restructuring of CAPART.
To another question, Singh said the resettlement and rehabilitation policy mooted by his ministry was likely to see the light of the day "within weeks". The policy, which seeks to ensure prompt rehabilitation and resettlement of those uprooted by mega-projects, industrial units and SEZ, would go to the Cabinet for its approval.
Earlier, briefing mediapersons on rural development programmes in Uttarakhand, he said that barring the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), implementation of other schemes was up to the mark.
He said if the state government sought some special assistance, the Centre would consider it.
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