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Illegal Donations Bite Greenpeace: NGO To Halve Its Staff Due To Frozen Accounts Over FCRA Violation
Greenpeace is among the NGOs that have been accused of FCRA violations. (Hemant Mishra/Mint via Getty Images)
Environment group Greenpeace might be halving its staff to 30 next year due to a block on its bank accounts after violation of FCRA norms, Reuters has reported.
The Enforcement Directorate had frozen the bank accounts of Greenpeace on 5 October. The non-profit organisation has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that it has funds to pay its employees only for two months.
The Enforcement Directorate has refused to comment on the matter. President of lobby group, Independent Power Producers Association of India, Asok Gupta, told Economic Times that it was unfair to blame power producers for action against Greenpeace as it was the NGO which was found guilty of violating the law.
The Narendra Modi government has cancelled licenses of nearly 15,000 non- governmental groups under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act since 2014. In October, the government froze the bank accounts of Amnesty International after a raid on its office
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