NEW DELHI: India has cancelled the licenses of 8,975 NGOs as they had failed to declare their sources of donation from abroad. India has tightened surveillance on foreign-funded NGOs.
India has suspended the license of Greenpeace India and put Ford Foundation on security watch list. Ford Foundation is an America based NGO.
Home ministry has uploaded the cancellation notification order on its website. It is said in the notification that 8975 NGOs did not declare detail of their foreign funding for last three years.
