Union Home Ministry reinstates the licence of Charity Missionaries

Missionaries LAW INSIDER

Nishka Srinivas Veluvali

Published On: January 08, 2022 at 20:12 IST

The Union Home Ministry has reinstated the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of the Missionaries of Charity.

The Home Ministry official informed that the Kolkata – based organisation can receive funds from foreign and also can also start spending the money that is been lying in the banks.

The Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic congregation commenced in 1950 by Nobel laureate Mother Teresa to help the poor.

The Home Ministry on 27 December had revoked the Licence of the Missionaries of Charity upon receiving some “adverse inputs”.

The Ministry had also stated that it did not freeze any bank accounts of the Missionaries however the State Bank of India said that the NGO itself had requested the bank to freeze its accounts.

The Opposition Parties including the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as well as Congress, criticized the Government for freezing the Organization’s bank accounts.

After the Union Home Ministry’s move, Naveen Patnaik, Odisha Chief Minister Ordered all the District Collectors to male sure that no units of the Missionaries of Charity in the State shall not face any Financial difficulties and if required they should use the Chief Minister’s relief fund to assist them.

Odisha CM had also Ordered to release Rs 78 lakhs for the Missionaries of Charity to run over the institutes in the State.

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