Discuss the frame work for improving the governance of non-governmental organisation in the country. (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
NGO’s
· The number of registered societies has also increased manifold in the last 20 years.
· Even a simple act of filing of annual audited returns is not insisted. Many of the NPIs traced had poor employment and financial records.
· There are some other regulations for example, those arising out of the Income Tax Act or the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, which only cover some aspects of governance.
Governance framework
· For improving the governance you need data. It is extremely difficult to get any data in the current set-up, fragmented and paper-based as it is.
· To ensure democratic functioning of NGOs, as participation in these provides education and experience to a large number of people in governance, certain minimum regulation is needed.
· 52% of funding in the 2012 survey of NPIs came from public sources, there is sufficient public stake in efficient and transparent functioning of the NGO sector.
· Ther is a need enact a model law and circulate to all the states for adoption, as has been done for many areas.
· States and the Union could form a SPV for doing it, and this SPV could charge the NGOs a small fee for maintenance of their data and it could be linked to the size of operations.
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