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Niti group works on new policy to regulate civil society groups, member says for ‘healthy partnership with govt’ -Karishma Mehrotra

-The Indian Express

The working group includes Joint Secretaries of the Financial Action Task Force division of Department of Economic Affairs as well as the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation Division/Combating of Funding of Terrorist Cell in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

A NITI Aayog group is working on a national policy to regulate civil society organisations following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Constituted in September last year, the Working Group for Formulation of New National Policy for Voluntary Sector, chaired by Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar, has begun receiving recommendations, including those from the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau under the Finance Ministry’s Department of Revenue, officials said.

The working group includes Joint Secretaries of the Financial Action Task Force division of Department of Economic Affairs as well as the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation Division/Combating of Funding of Terrorist Cell in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

“There is no regulatory mechanism at the national level to regulate the functioning of the civil society. This is one of the initiatives of the Niti Aayog because no ministry focuses on it. We want to come up with a national-level framework to self-regulate or regulate civil society organisations who violate the government mandate and to bring some standard among them,” an official of the Niti Aayog said.

“There are more than 32 lakh civil society organisations registered under different Acts but the actual contributors to societal development are very few. Maybe some 4,000 have any impact on the ground,” the official said.

Although a 2007 policy by the erstwhile Planning Commission is in place, the official said several violations of the new regulatory additions, including to the Foreign Contribution Regulation (FCRA), led to this call for a revamped policy.

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