New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has reinstated the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.FCRA) Registration of Mother Teresa missionaries of Charity Government sources said on Saturday that after submitting the required documents to the department concerned a few days back.
A Home Ministry official said that with this the Kolkata-based organization will now be able to receive foreign funding and also spend money lying in banks.
The Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious congregation founded in 1950 by Nobel laureate Mother Teresa to help the poor and destitute.
On December 27, 2021, the Center said it had received the Missionaries of Charity’s FCRA renewal application “for not meeting eligibility conditions”, and on some “adverse input” while it was considering the application.
Sister M Prema, Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity, also issued a statement confirming that her FCRA renewal application was rejected.
After the matter became public, the opposition, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Congress, pulled up the government for allegedly “freezing” the bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity.
“Shocked to hear that on Christmas, the Union Ministry froze all bank accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in India! His 22,000 patients and staff have been left without food and medicines. While law is paramount, humanitarian efforts should not be compromised,” she had tweeted.
However, home Ministry Denied freezing any of his bank accounts.
It said that it did not freeze any account of Missionaries of Charity but State Bank of India informed it that Non government organization Sent ITA request to freeze my accounts myself.
Sister Prema had also said that “there is no order by the ministry to freeze any of our bank accounts”. “We have told our centers not to operate any foreign contribution account till the matter is resolved to ensure that there is no default,” he said.
About 6,000 organizations lost their FCRA licenses on January 1 either because they failed to renew them or their applications were rejected.
A Home Ministry official said that with this the Kolkata-based organization will now be able to receive foreign funding and also spend money lying in banks.
The Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious congregation founded in 1950 by Nobel laureate Mother Teresa to help the poor and destitute.
On December 27, 2021, the Center said it had received the Missionaries of Charity’s FCRA renewal application “for not meeting eligibility conditions”, and on some “adverse input” while it was considering the application.
Sister M Prema, Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity, also issued a statement confirming that her FCRA renewal application was rejected.
After the matter became public, the opposition, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Congress, pulled up the government for allegedly “freezing” the bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity.
“Shocked to hear that on Christmas, the Union Ministry froze all bank accounts of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in India! His 22,000 patients and staff have been left without food and medicines. While law is paramount, humanitarian efforts should not be compromised,” she had tweeted.
However, home Ministry Denied freezing any of his bank accounts.
It said that it did not freeze any account of Missionaries of Charity but State Bank of India informed it that Non government organization Sent ITA request to freeze my accounts myself.
Sister Prema had also said that “there is no order by the ministry to freeze any of our bank accounts”. “We have told our centers not to operate any foreign contribution account till the matter is resolved to ensure that there is no default,” he said.
About 6,000 organizations lost their FCRA licenses on January 1 either because they failed to renew them or their applications were rejected.
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