Bihar accounts for a third of blacklisted NGOs

Bihar tops the list of voluntary organisations blacklisted by the Union Rural Development Ministry. Of the 355 NGOs blacklisted by the Counc...

Bihar tops the list of voluntary organisations blacklisted by the Union Rural Development Ministry. Of the 355 NGOs blacklisted by the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) under the ministry, 113 are from Bihar.

Most of the NGOs have been blacklisted this year for involvement in corrupt practices or irregularities, according to a statement in the Rajya Sabha. The statement also said that 106 NGOs were blacklisted due to submission of forged documents. No funds were released to these NGOs.

Responding to supplementaries during Question Hour today, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said Rs 4.58 crore had been misutilised by the NGOs. The Bihar NGOs alone had misutilised Rs 87 lakh for which they had been blacklisted.

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Andhra Pradesh has 35 blacklisted NGOS that have misutilised Rs 83.05 lakh. Next on the list is UP with 57 NGOs (Rs 76 lakh); Haryana has 20 blacklisted NGOs (Rs 47.34 lakh); Karnataka with 21 NGOs (Rs 28.66 lakh); and 26 in Rajasthan(Rs 22.74 lakh).

CAPART, according to the statement, has now taken some remedial measures to prevent such misutilisation of funds and tighten the grant of financial assistance to these NGOs.

The measures include a three-tier monitoring system and clearly spelt out criteria to be met by the NGOs, among them the requirement of producing original bank/post office passbooks and registration certificates for NGOs applying for the first time.

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