Why some Foreign Funded NGOs will always oppose Food and Energy Security of India?
Why some foreign-funded NGOs will always oppose the Food & Energy Security of India?
How to establish Mr. Modi, his government, and India's growth?
No government can survive when there is a food and energy crisis. The best way to keep India's political and economic system under check is by keeping India hungry and in the dark.
Once a leader of a foreign delegation told me, during an evening walk after the international conference, that No government in the world will ever support India to make India a global power, because no one wants to see India emerging as a competitor to them. "They all will do only lip service but they will not do anything tangible on the ground."
Please analyze where all money was spent in the last 20 years by these NGOs other than "seminars" and "education" activities for opinion leaders and stakeholders.
Challenge before India:
It means if India has to become a global power, First of all, India has to become food and energy secure.
As part of the strategy, competitors of India on the world stage will use every trick in the book to keep India poor and energy deficit. They will create a hostile environment around India so that our resources are drained in non-productive expenditures like defense expenditure, and counter-insurgency operations, and use all anti-development forces within India led by NGOs so that resources cannot be generated by economic activity for India's advancement.
Outcome: The high cost of food and poor power supplies or energy situation will not allow India to become the industrial and economic power of the world.
Why do no foreign-funded NGOs ever give a plan on how to make India's Food and Energy Secure?
Please see the track record of NGO activities in India. Most of the agitation in India is against all those projects and policies that are designed to make India Food and Energy secure.
Foreign-funded NGOs placed in India just oppose these development agendas without giving any alternate development agenda and without giving any sensible alternative or option that can make India's Food and Energy Secure.
Why do they do this? Any idea... Please think about it.
Around 2006, Green Peace people once came to me to convince me that India's Agriculture Policy is bad. When I asked them what are their plans to ensure food security in India. Let us discuss that. The reply was, "We will come back to you". To date, I am waiting for them, with their plans.
Now Modi government has placed NGOs under scanner following an IB warning. In fact, the UPA government also raised a red flag on NGOs as well. In the UPA Government many were part of policy-making bodies including the Planning Commission and Sonia Gandhi's National Development Council and due to their closeness to UPA ministers and congress leaders. Unfortunately, the media and courts also gave them undue weightage as well based on their cooked-up stories.
All the policies which were pushed by these NGOs were to make India fundamentally weak and spineless and promote the "concept of free lunches" like free food, free water, free services, and pay without work", etc so that India's resources could be drained out forever without any focus on productivity and accountability.
The biggest question is whether should they continue to be part of policy-making bodies of Ministries and Regulatory Authorities?
Now, the Prime
Minister's Office has written to all the ministries twice, asking them to
furnish details of NGOs working with them on various projects. This comes soon
after the PMO received a report from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) alleging that
NGOs were threatening India's economic security.
NGOs working in various development sectors rubbished
the report and said they had all the government clearances.
Please think about it:
- Please think what are the sources of funds for these large NGOs in India?
- Why do they never give pro-development suggestions and fight for the economic upliftment of India?
- Are donor countries interested in the development of India?
- What is their motive and interest in supporting these NGOs in India?
- How many countries in the world want to see India as a developed and vibrant nation?
- What will happen to these donor countries' trading and commercial interests if India becomes a developed nation?
If India becomes a developed nation, the donor countries will lose many business opportunities to push their products and services into India. Behind promoting and funding these NGOs they have long-term commercial interest. Nothing comes for free, not even donations and grants to these NGOs. Please study the lifestyle of these NGOs and their promoters. You will come to know the facts. They have to perform as per "His Master's Voice" in their performance review for the next round of funding.
Questions for You?
You must be reading newspapers regularly. If not, do a Google search and please find out...
- Which NGO opposed India's move towards Nuclear energy but they use the same in their donor's country?
- Which NGO gave the report for permitting FDI in multi-branded retail to benefit FDI move into highly profitable India's retail market?
- Which NGO forced the Government and Courts to ban low-cost and safe generic pesticides but never targeted high-cost patented branded pesticides? If DDT is toxic, why do no employees working in DDT factories suffer from cancer but people who never use DDT suffer from DDT. How cooked up these reports?
- Which NGO forced a ban on mining in India and forced India to suffer a power and industrial crisis?
- Which NGO opposed technology adoption in the agriculture sector to improve productivity but they consume the same product in their donor country?
- Why many NGOs were opposing India's official position in WTO negotiations on Agriculture and related matters?
These NGOs have now penetrated most of the policy-making bodies in India. See some well-known names and their focus areas in the chart below. These NGOs are always keen to be in the policy-making bodies of India.
Many of these NGOs are also parking places for many key figures in outdated political people and policy-making post-retirement.
What IB Should do?
Please study their funding, and the list of people involved in these NGOs and also study the degrees and qualifications of these NGO leaders.
Please also study the educational background of NGO representatives on the subject for which they are nominated on the committees means from which foreign university, under which scholarship, track record of their placement and employment of their employees and NGO promoters, and their "interested parties or related family members" as per the definition of Companies Act
I can assure you, an interesting analysis of a well crafted coincidences will emerge.
You will find many NGO promoters have developed an interest in activities in the areas where they have no competency, no track record or working experience, or education in that line.
The biggest qualification was they are "MOTIVATED" for the "CAUSE" of the welfare of "STAKEHOLDERS". This was good enough for foreign funding to them. Please read this line very carefully.
What Departments Should Do?
- It will be useful to ask for the Biodata and Annual Reports of all NGO representatives on all committees of your departments. If they fail to submit annual statements to the Government, they should be removed from the committees.
- There should be a declaration before every meeting about conflict of interest means they should be close to all agencies funding them for all projects to study conflict of interests, like we all do for the Board of Directors.
Some of the examples are:
NGOs promoting EU standards in India and want India should spend billions of dollars to follow EU standards so that EU business interests can flourish in India are in fact funded by European agencies. Unfortunately, Courts also failed to understand this trade and political dimension in the name of Public Interests.
Can these NGOs tell people what they did with the funds received so far?
Think
why these NGOs don't open their books to social audit and public scrutiny. Why their activities are not in the public domain. Most NGOs are not even filing their annual returns about their income and expenditures. CAG audit should be done to disclose and to tell the public from where these funds are coming and for which activity they were used. How does it benefit India's development? We all want to know the facts behind the IB report.
I am sure many international voices will become louder against Mr. Modi or any leader for doing so because these voices have their own agenda. India is a Market for their products and services. At any cost they want these markets like India to remain underdeveloped. My request to the media, public, and courts is, Pl. don't get carried away by such noises, they are paid to do so.
I have written in my blogs about how NGOs are damaging India's economic growth. You may read the following links as well:
Click here:
http://sardanavijay.blogspot.in/2013/07/proof-greenpeace-against-indias-food.html
What was their motive? Who was funding them? Any guess...
Someone must have benefited from these developments. Someone must have gained additional trade or market access through these developments. Find out who all benefited from this, think about it.
Now,
The letters were sent on June 3 and 5 by Nripendra
Misra, principal secretary to PM Narendra Modi, to all the secretaries heading
various central ministries. The first letter, issued on June 3, merely sought
details of all autonomous bodies and NGOs working with the ministries.
"This is the first time that the PMO
has sought such information. Ministries have been asked to give details of all
autonomous bodies working under them, what is their function etc," said a
senior government official who requested anonymity. "The PMO has also
sought information on NGOs working with ministries such as when were they
appointed and details of projects they are working on. We were just told that
the PMO wanted to update its database."
The second letter issued on June 5 is much more
detailed and seeks extensive details about the NGOs and the projects in which
they are partnering with the ministries. It seeks details of the NGO, its
affiliations, people on its board, foreigners working with it, and details of
their employment and visa, as well as Foreign Contribution Regulation Act
(FCRA) clearance.
FCRA clearance is a must for all NGOs to get foreign
funding. This helps the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) monitor NGO funding and
check the antecedents of the international donors. But, who is monitoring and auditing the use of funds?
"We have only seen the reports about the IB
report on the NGOs and we can assume that the letters issued to the ministries
are a follow-up. However, the letter does not specify why this information is
sought," a secretary confirmed to HT on the condition of anonymity. In my view, either HT or this secretary is trying to appear ignorant.
It has been reported that a detailed report, prepared
by SA Rizvi, joint director in the IB, was sent to the PMO. It alleged that
NGOs like Greenpeace had been "stalling development projects". Now, Greenpeace, an international NGO which works on environmental issues, has
rejected the allegations in the report. What else they will say? Can they say YES, we are indulging in anti-development activities in India?
I request Green Peace, if they have the expertise and motive to see India as a prosperous country, please come out with an Affordable Food Security Plan for India and work for that cause. Otherwise, Quit India.
"Some of the ministries that have a large
component of social development, like human resources development, women and
child development, and rural development will have many NGOs partnering them in
their welfare schemes," another senior government official told HT.
Several NGOs have said they were worried about the intentions of the
government. But why they are worried if they are doing a good job for India's growth, their work will speak for themselves. If they have not made any meaningful contribution they should worry or change their business model.
Option before NGOs
All NGOs are not bad. Many homegrown NGOs are doing a lot of good things. Some sensible foreign funds are also supporting them for a good cause as well. Good and sensible NGOs know who is doing what. Good NGOs should run campaigns to weed out dubious NGOs working with ulterior motives to drag India's economic growth. They should prepare a certification system to evaluate the credibility of their work based on objective criteria which should be in line with the national development agenda.
Will Good NGOs stop these dubious and big-name NGOs who are creating hurdles for India's growth?
Other developing countries should also learn from India's experience about their NGO culture.
CAUTION :
Many such foreign-funded NGOs are part of many policy making bodies. They may be getting instruction, besides funds, on what to PUSH and what to STOP in Policy Making Process in India in the name of "ENVIRONMENT", "WELFARE" AND "SUSTAINABILITY".
Such NGOs are also official sources of information for India's competitors and adversaries. Their "handlers" may be deciding future course of action based on the feedback of these NGOs about what is happening inside the Government of India and what is the thought process of India's growth planners.
That is why many High Commissions and Embassies suddenly become active and start lobbying with government officials even before important policies are announced.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
- Should foreign-funded NGOs continue to be part of India's policy-making process?
- Should Courts take these planted study reports seriously without vetting by expert panels, in the name of Public Interest, than reports from Official Indian research systems?
- What should be the qualification of NGO representatives when they are appointed to any committee by the Government and Courts.
High time to think and take serious views on these developments.
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