Recent developments

♤ In 2015, rules under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) were amended to regulate foreign funding of NGOs and the FCRA license of Greenpeace India was cancelled

♤ In recent years, there have been activist or overtly political NGOs which take recourse to policy advocacy, lobbying, mass mobilisation and strident campaigning to usher in change in government policies or play the role of a watchdog.

♤ The government had to probe the bank accounts of foreign funded NGOs over discrepancies.