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| Activities of various NGOs’ under scanner in Kashmir | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 23: In the wake of alleged arrival of foreign funds used to fuel unrest in Kashmir valley, the Central intelligence has reportedly put the activities of various NGOs and organizations in Kashmir under thorough scanner.
The NIA has already registered a preliminary case into the alleged flow of funds to valley, while a three-member NIA team, headed by a Deputy Inspector General (DIG), was probing "suspicious" fund transaction in bank accounts that was suspected to be used to fuel unrest in the valley.
Highly placed sources told Early Times that strict directions have been issued to all enforcement agencies concerned to Jammu and Kashmir affairs, to keep track of the flow of funds to the NGOs and other charitable organizations in Kashmir. "Specifying amount of any foreign funds received, sources of such funds, for which purpose they were received and the manner in which they were utilized in last three months are supposed to be checked by the intelligence agencies," sources said.
According to officers with the intelligence, the Union Home Ministry has also asked the agencies to identify the organizations where they suspect diversion of funds for other purposes. "The MHA has upped the surveillance and regular reports are filed in this regard. There are apprehensions that some organizations may use the subsidiary route for pumping in money," said one of the intelligence officers of MHA.
Sources said that MHA has asked the intelligences agencies to direct all the NGO organizations working in Jammu and Kashmir to keep account books updated. "The MHA has been strict in taking action only in those cases where violations of set rules have come to notice," sources said.
Sources said that a detailed probe is on to trace the funding activities in Kashmir with regard to the unrest in the valley.
Sources said that intelligence agencies are also believed to have collected details about a few bank accounts of the NGOs and have also put some accounts under surveillance.
Sources said that the top tax body, the central board of direct taxes and enforcement directorate, which tracks foreign funds and money laundering, has also been alerted in this regard.
It is to mention here that in the recent past, Union Home Ministry had cancelled the license of about 36 NGOs, including several prominent organizations in Jammu and Kashmir.
As per the government officials thousands of NGOs have been registered in J&K in the last 25 years.
The Civil society at large had demanded blanket ban on all dubious NGOs and other such organizations in Jammu and Kashmir which have been receiving funds from different departments and organizations of the State, besides foreign countries, without any accountability.
The civil societies were off the belief that over the years this ill-gotten money is either swindled completely by the NGO operators or spent on anti-social activities. |
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