NGOs using foreign funds must be monitored, not hounded

July 21, 2014 11:27

The media were agog when a "secret' report of the Intelligence Bureau was leaked a few days after the swearing-in of the Narendra Modi-led government.

It, particularly, pointed to Greenpeace, to the agitation against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (picture) and coal-based thermal power projects as having been funded by foreign agencies to hold back India's development.

The report, obviously, suits the suspicions about foreign funding in both the Congress, which initiated the report, and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which received it. Read more

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