{"id":188431,"date":"2024-12-04T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/mha-grants-fcra-licence-to-cni-and-usin-foundation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:21:21","slug":"mha-grants-fcra-licence-to-cni-and-usin-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/mha-grants-fcra-licence-to-cni-and-usin-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA grants FCRA licence to CNI and USIN foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-115983251,imgsize-39990.cms?resize=1600,900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"MHA grants FCRA licence to CNI and USIN foundation\" title=\"MHA grants FCRA licence to CNI and USIN foundation\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"10\">New Delhi: The Union home ministry has granted Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licence to <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/usin-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USIN Foundation<\/a>, a think tank, and The Synodical Board of Social Services of The Church of North India (CNI) among others. While USIN was issued <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fcra-licence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCRA licence<\/a> early this month, <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNI<\/a>&#8216;s application was approved a few months earlier, said officials aware of the matter.<\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:2-->US India Strategic Partnership Forum-backed USIN Foundation has <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ajay-banga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ajay Banga<\/a>, president, World Bank, and <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/panache\/panache-people-101\/indra-nooyi\/profileshow\/79680606.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Indra Nooyi<\/a>, former chairman, Pepsico, as its founding members. The FCRA licence has been granted for five years to each of the NGOs. USIN Foundation has been granted licences for economic activities whereas CNI can carry out activities under six different heads such as religious, cultural, economic, educational and social, added officials.<\/p>\n<p>An email query sent to USIN Foundation and CNI Trust remained unanswered till press time. <\/p>\n<p>CNI, an evangelical organisation, had its FCRA licence revoked last year for alleged violation of rules after which the trust was not able to receive or utilise foreign funding. Active since 1970, CNI came into existence through the merger of six different churches, including the Church of India (formerly known as the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon). CNI&#8217;s Synodical Board of Social Services runs initiatives such as women&#8217;s fellowship for Christian services and Synodical Youth fellowship programme.<\/p>\n<p>NGOs with FCRA licence are required to apply for renewal, but the deadline was extended from September 2020 when amendments to FCRA law were introduced. The extensions have been granted to NGOs till December 31, during which some prominent NGOs&#8217; FCRA licences were renewed. According to the ministry data, there are 16,037 NGOs with FCRA licence active in India as of today, of which fresh registration for 347 trusts has been approved in 2024 so far.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/include_growfast.cms?pagename=article&skipcss=1potime:2--><\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/mha-grants-fcra-licence-to-cni-and-usin-foundation\/articleshow\/115983251.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Union home ministry has granted Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licence to USIN Foundation, a think tank, and The Synodical Board of Social Services of The Church of North India (CNI) among others. While USIN was issued FCRA licence early this month, CNI&#8216;s application was approved a few months earlier, said officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-115983251,imgsize-39990.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[122410,147478,15765,22911,8499,7615,97317,22623,22915,147479,147480,147477],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188433,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188431\/revisions\/188433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}