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Sep 18, 2015 · NEW DELHI: Two contracts signed between the Ford Foundation and Teesta Setalvad's Sabrang Communications in 2004 and 2006 have come under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation that's probing alleged foreign contribution violations in this regard.
Teesta's Sabrang Communications and Publishing (not registered under FCRA) had between 2004 and 2014 accepted $290,000 from the US-based Ford Foundation without the government approval .The Ford Foundation, one of the largest international donors, was put on the watch-list following a Gujarat government complaint that it was interfering in ...
The Indian government has placed the Ford Foundation on a watchlist for giving funds to activist Teesta Setalvad’s organisations, claiming that the money was used for anti-national activities.
Oct 27, 2016 · In the winter of December 2014, months before the Modi government’s crackdown on over 13,000 NGOs started, the Ford Foundation’s offices in New Delhi learnt through informal sources that its funding of an organisation run by activist Teesta Setalvad had drawn the interest of Gujarat state police.
The agency is probing an alleged foreign contribution of US$ 2.9 lakh given by Ford Foundation to Setalvad’s Sabrang Communications in violation of the norms under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act (FCRA).
Program officer of Ford Foundation connived with director of Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt Limited (SCPPL) for granting around $ 2.9 lakh foreign donations in violation of Foreign...
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Apr 15, 2015 · Following investigations into the embezzlement of funds by social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand, the Gujarat government has accused US-based NGO Ford Foundation of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violation and “direct interference by a foreign NGO in the internal affairs of the country and abetting communal ...
