Breaking India with Foreign Dollars

India is big... India has huge growth potentials... India has all factors in its favour that can make it a prosperous economy... But there are some huge obstacles too... The population explosion is probably the biggest deterrent.. There is widespread corruption and illiteracy... Gender bias and religious prejudices are not uncommon.. Some states are lagging far behind others.. But then any growing nation will have these challenges in front of it... India can still make it to the top in spite of all these obstacles...

And we are growing at quite a steady pace but we could have grown with faster pace, had we been free of the pests that infest the length of our country... There are Jihadists who are obsessed with blowing people and even themselves.. There are spineless pseudo-seculars... There is the biased media that lacks the willpower to present news-as-it-is... But there is one section of people who are inflicting maximum damage on the very soul of India....

I am talking about the NGOs – Non Government Organizations....

4470 NGOs in India have been delicensed this month... Licenses for 8875 NGOs were cancelled in April for violation of rules governing foreign funds... The Government of India has many more NGOs on its watch list... Let us get into the numbers and technicalities later on.... Let us first see what NGOs in India do...???

On the surface most NGOs do all kinds of "Jagat-Kalyaan" job... From empowering women to educating girl child, from conserving water to harvesting rain water, from saving forests from land mafia to protesting against big corporations, NGOs stand for the rights of the weaks.... Beneath the surface however work for most NGOs converts into technically converts into anti-India work... Greenpeace, Amnesty, ActionAid etc. are heavily funded NGOs that serve foreign interests... Their donors remain secret and their methods remain one big black box. And they are not the only ones... In the words of R Vaidyanathan, professor of finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore “Many NGOs that do receive foreign funding are not covered under the Right to Information Act... Hence, finding information about their finances becomes difficult... Additionally, some groups don’t even have websites, which only makes it more cumbersome to find out details about their finances...."

Now let us come to the numbers... Here is the breakup for the amount of foreign contribution received by NGOs in India.. :

Year 2008-09 :

Number of NGOs: 23172

Amount Received: 10997.35 Crores

Year 2009-10 :

Number of NGOs: 22275

Amount Received: 10431.12 Crores

Year 2010-11 :

Number of NGOs: 22735

Amount Received: 10334.12 Crores..

Now look at the biggest donors:

United States: Rs 3105.73 crores.

Germany Rs 1046.3 crores.

United Kingdom: Rs 1038.68 crores.

And now let us check the biggest benefactors out:

Gospel for Asia Inc, USA: Rs 232.71 crores.

Fundacion Vicente Ferrer, Spain: Rs 228.60 crores.

World Vision Global Centre, USA: Rs 197.62 crores.

When there is big money involved, there are big intentions involved too... A lot of NGOs in India are involved in paying off people for staging protests against corporations and projects.... The Koodankulam nuclear plant agitation or the agitation in Odisha against POSCO can be taken up as good case studies... Other NGOs are involved in killing the brand image of India... One example would be their desperate attempt to make India look like the “Rape Capital”. Another would be the “Minority is not safe” in Modi’s India attempt. Propagation of western style feminism can be taken as the third example. Some NGOs are conventional conversion christian schools. A percentage of the funds received is doled out as freebies for achieving mass-scale conversions. Most of the protesters protesting against government projects turn out to be hapless tribals. Upon closer examination they turn out to be tribals converted into Christians. Coincidences you see! The agenda of most of the big NGOs in India is set by foreign countries that want to ensure that India is not self-reliant. The smaller NGOs however do meaner jobs and provide an efficient way for converting black money into white. Some even allow individuals to cheat on their income taxes.

Now let us come to the technicality of it:
According to the Foreign Funding Contribution (Regulation) Act, it is mandatory for NGOs to be registered under this law to receive funds from abroad... They also need to declare their donor names. Any NGO that doesn’t fit the bill and/or refuses to comply should be closed down...

That’s exactly what Modi and Co. are doing and they deserve a pat on their backs for this... Yes, we need to empower the weaks... Yes, we need to conserve our natural resources... But we don’t need American dollars for that... A clear vision, an efficient government and a constructive participation of the citizens is all we need...

Jai Hind..

- Dip Joshi...

(Sources: Reddif India and TFI)

Why Should Modi Visit Israel..??

India has a large number of Israel supporters. Their “You hit me, I hit you back with double the force” attitude has been appreciated by a large number of Indians....

Israel has been a good friend of India since 1992. India and Israel share 23 years of diplomatic ties. India and Israel work closely in sectors of Agriculture, mining, energy and of course defense. Israel has been India’s ally in combating terrorism. While no country has supported India in its pursuit against Pakistan, Israel has been doing it for long and very visibly and vocally so. Israel provided India with images of Pakistani locations using its UAVs during the Kargil War in 1999. India may have won the war without it but it would have taken longer and would have caused a great many causalities on the Indian side. Israel supported India’s “Operation Parakram”, a limited military strike against Pakistan in 2002, by supplying hardware through special planes.... Not to forget, not many countries refuse to sell weapons to Pakistan just because they are at war with India. Israel is the ONLY one...

But what has Israel gotten in return from India...???
Hypocrisy. Oh and #PrayForGaza of course....

Yes, that's what we have been doing. We have silently been a part of the international society for condemnation of Israel. We have denied Israel of what it rightfully deserves. We have been advocates of Gaza’s rights but we have failed to acknowledge that Israel is combating against a Fanatic outfit that is on slaughtering every Israeli they can get a hold of....

But, Thanks to the first right wing prime minister from the Congress, Shri PV Narsimha Rao. It was largely because of his efforts that the relations between India and Israel normalized in in January 1992. But even he couldn’t become the first Indian Prime Minister of India to visit Israel. The fear of backlash at home was quite evident. Now the world looks up at Narendra Modi who could very well be the first prime minister of India to visit Israel. Although the MoEA clarified that it was a “proposed” visit and the details are not finalized yet....

But the critics have started to oppose the tour already...
Let's look at some comments...

Congressman Anand Sharma said “India has had a consistent and firm position on the rights of Palestinians for a state of their own since the days of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.." He called the idea of visiting Israel "worrisome”....

The Communist Party of India-Marxist pointed out that “the current Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu was dominated by rightwing and Jewish extremist parties and that Modi’s Israel visit amounts to deserting Palestine.”...

And many of the other National leaders as well as Media were afraid of an Arab backlash. I am not too sure what they even mean..?? That probably means that we’ll no longer be in the good books of Arabs who give us oil and employ so many Indians. Wow! That's some logic...!!! I am not too sure if India’s largely pro-Arab stance in the Middle East has borne any sweet fruits till now? They never supported India in resolving the issues in Kashmir. They have never put any kinds of pressure on Pakistan as far as matters of terrorism are concerned. In fact they have stood by Pakistan’s side. Fine they give us oil but hey! We pay for it. Don’t we?

It’s time that Modi takes a friendlier step towards Israel. India and Israel united will be a force to reckon with. Modi must visit Israel and Israel must get from India what it truly and rightfully deserves. Israel and India need to become open friends rather than closet allies. Backlashes will happen at home, antigovernment slogans will trend on Twitter but that shouldn’t discourage the Indian Prime Minister who has come a long way jumping on the heads of critics....

Jai Hind....