INNLIVE Impact: Govt Cancels Licences Of 1,142 AP NGOs

As an impact of our news, the government has cancelled the licences of 1,142 NGOs belonging to undivided Andhra Pradesh for not filing their annual returns for three consecutive years. INNLIVE published the story of 'Seeking Money and Meaning in the NGO World' in these columns and the late impact made the change in present scenario.

The home ministry's foreigners division had served notices to NGOs on October 16, 2014 for not filing their returns for 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act and had asked them to reply within 30 days.


As many as 510 notices were returned undelivered due to various reasons, including shifting of the address.

Earlier, registrations of 4,138 associations under FCRA were cancelled for non submission of annual returns from 2006-07 to 2008-09.Among these, Tamil Nadu accounted for the maximum NGOs (794) followed by Andhra Pradesh (670) and Kerala (450).