How foreign ‘donations’ pose a serious danger to our national security

There is no such thing as free lunch. Large amount of funding for the so called non-profit or non-commercial sector in India is generated as overseas ‘donations’ by various organizations that are affiliated to foreign State and non-State actors. 2,08,096 Crores of foreign ‘donations’ has been pumped into the country, in the last two decades, by foreign sources through official open channels by remitting to FCRA-NGOs. A further analysis of the FCRA data indicates that as on 1st April, 2017 the total amount brought forward by the FCRA-NGOs as unspent money from past foreign ‘donations’ is a whopping Rs. Read: Modi government has cancelled registration of 14,800 NGOs in last five years for FCRA violations Those who claim to represent the so called ‘civil society’ of India are ironically least funded by that society but mostly by the foreign sources, which is a pointer to the fact that the so called issues they are espousing do not resonate and have popular connect with the civilisationally rooted common Indians.