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Christians organizations get lion's share of foreign funds
Inder Sawhney
Times of India
August 16, 1999
Title: Christians organizations get lion's share of foreign funds
Author: Inder Sawhney
Publication: Times of India
Date: August 16, 1999
NEW DELHI: Christian missionaries and allied
groups continue to be largest recipients of
foreign funds. They received Rs 15.88 crore
(75.69 per cent of the total foreign funds) in
April-June this year compared with Rs 11.41 crore
during the corresponding period last year and Rs
12.67 crore in the first quarter.
A study of the receipt of foreign funds by
religious/ non-political organisations and other
groups in April-June, based on Intelligence
reports gathered by the Home ministry, indicates
a sharp increase to Rs 20.98 crore compared with
Rs 14.02 crore during the corresponding period in
1998.
The US with donations of Rs 4.10 crore (as
against Rs 2.26 crore during the same period in
1998) displaced Germany as the leading donor. In
the first quarter of 1999 also, the US was the
highest donor with Rs 3.31 crore.
In the second quarter of this year, Kerala
received the largest amount (Rs 3.09 crore)
followed by Himachal Pradesh (Rs 2.87 crore) ,
West Bengal (Rs 2.73 crore) Maharashtra (Rs 1.69
crore), Andhra Pradesh Rs 1.3 crore and Karnataka
Rs 1.2 crore. Rajasthan was the lowest,
accounting for a mere Rs 4,000.
Non-political organisations were the other major
recipients of foreign funds (Rs 1.38 crore)
followed by Muslim organisations which got Rs
64.13 lakh compared with Rs 23.06 lakh received
by them in the second quarter of 1998.
According to the study, there was a fall in the
receipt of funds by non-denominational
organisations, including ``pseudo-religious''
bodies. They received Rs 22.99 lakh in the second
quarter of this year against Rs 70.99 lakh in the
corresponding period last year.
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