FCRA licence for Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity

Nuns at the Missionaries of Charity office in Kolkata. Pic/AFP

Nearly two weeks after the Union government refused to renew the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC), the Centre restored it on Thursday. The new FCRA certificate will be valid till the end of 2026. With the renewed registration, the charity will be able to receive and use funds from foreign contributions. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), as of January 7, there are 16,908 active or alive FCRA organisations in the country, and MoC is one of them.

On December 25, the MHA had refused to renew the NGO's FCRA registration after it had received some "adverse inputs". It had mentioned in a statement on December 27 that MoC's "renewal of FCRA registration…was refused on December 25, 2021, for not meeting the eligibility conditions under FCRA 2010 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules (FCRR) 2011". It mentioned that "no request/revision application" was received for the refusal of the renewal. The organisation's registration was valid up to October 31, 2021, the Ministry said, adding that the "validity was subsequently extended up to December 31, 2021, along with other FCRA associations whose renewal application were pending renewal".

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