NEW DELHI: With the Government cracking the whip on NGOs for alleged violation of foreign funding rules, the Supreme Court has also taken a serious view of mushrooming of about 30 lakh such bodies across the country and many of them not filing Income Tax returns for years.
The apex court, which has been seized of the matter for nearly five years and had ordered CBI to probe into charges of misappropriation of funds by many NGOs, wanted to know if there was any regulatory body to look at the size and magnitude of the problem.
“This is a major problem. These are mind-boggling figures,” a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said, adding that “lakhs of societies are getting money from all over the world”.
“Is there any recommendation by the Law Commission to frame legislations for effective regulation and transparency in the funding of such NGOs. (AGENCIES)
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