37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
With the recent de-licensing of 4470 NGOs in India, in addition to the 8875 NGOs whose licenses were revoked in April for violation of rules governing foreign funds, the government of India seems to have set in motion a process that it began by targeting Greenpeace and Ford Foundation.
Legally, the government may be right because these NGOs have reportedly violated government rules they were required to play by, but morally it’s on a sticky wicket because the action was preceded by a lot of anti-NGO paranoia and animosity from its own benches. Going at the present rate of the clamp down – more than 13,000 organisations in two months – one could expect more.
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