The Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended the FCRA licence of outstanding public think-tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR) over violation of laws, officers stated today. The CPR became beneathneath scrutiny after Income Tax surveys on it and Oxfam India in September ultimate year. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of CPR has been suspended over violation of laws, the officers stated.
Oxfam`s FCRA licence became suspended in January ultimate year, and then the NGO had filed a revision petition with the house ministry. With the suspension of its licence, given beneathneath the FCRA, CPR will now no longer be capable of acquire any budget from abroad.
The donors of CPR blanketed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, the World Resources Institute and the Duke University, the officers stated. CPR, a non-earnings organisation, which additionally gets offers from the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), is a known group of the Department of Science and Technology.
The think-tank has been requested to provide explanation and files concerning FCRA budget acquired through it, officers stated. he FCRA licence of CPR became ultimate renewed in 2016 and became due for renewal in 2021.
According to CPR’s internet site, it’s been one in every of India’s main public coverage think-tanks because 1973. PR is a non-earnings, non-partisan, impartial group committed to carrying out studies that contributes to excessive fine scholarship, higher policies, and a far better public discourse approximately the problems that effect lifestyles in India, it claimed.
It brings collectively India’s fine thinkers and coverage practitioners who’re at the leading edge of each studies and engagement withinside the coverage space, drawing from numerous disciplines and expert backgrounds, the internet site stated.
CPR conducts superior and in-intensity studies on a extensive variety of coverage-applicable problems, with a focal point on India’s 21st-century challenges, it stated. Through its studies and policymaking engagements, CPR works intently with policymakers in its purpose to location India firmly at the direction of constructing a twenty-first century coverage ecosystem, the non-earnings’s internet site stated.