Shimla: A public welfare trust has urged Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to conduct an inquiry into Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that are urging students to collect "huge funds" in the name of cancer patients.
Ajai Srivastava, chairman of the Umang Foundation alleged that this is a fraud and is being done in connivance with the administrations of multiple schools.
Srivastava demanded that a high-level inquiry is conducted against the erring schools and a First Information Report (FIR) be lodged against the NGOs since they have collected crores of rupees by using children.
He claimed that three students from Class 11 of local government senior secondary school, came to his house asking for donations for cancer patients on behalf of one NGO 'Cancer Aid Society, Lucknow'.
When questioned why they were collecting the funds, they said that their English teacher had assigned them the task to collect funds for the NGO.
The school children were also promised prizes if they collected a handsome amount, reports news agency The Press Trust of India (PTI).
However, when Srivastava contacted the NGO at their Lucknow number to seek financial assistance for a 3-year-old girl who was suffering from blood cancer, an NGO official refused any help, stating that the NGO collects funds to create awareness regarding cancer but doesn't give any aid to individual cases.
Srivastava also stated that upon further investigation by the Umang Foundation, it was revealed that at least four NGOs are "aggressively collecting money through school students in different districts of the state" and no receipts were being provided.
When Umang Foundation asked the Director of high education in this regard, Srivastava said that he "expressed ignorance and said that no such permission had been given to anybody".
Source: http://www.timesnow.tv/india/article/non-governmental-organisation-ngo-public-welfare-trust-himachal-pradesh/61250
Ajai Srivastava, chairman of the Umang Foundation alleged that this is a fraud and is being done in connivance with the administrations of multiple schools.
Srivastava demanded that a high-level inquiry is conducted against the erring schools and a First Information Report (FIR) be lodged against the NGOs since they have collected crores of rupees by using children.
He claimed that three students from Class 11 of local government senior secondary school, came to his house asking for donations for cancer patients on behalf of one NGO 'Cancer Aid Society, Lucknow'.
When questioned why they were collecting the funds, they said that their English teacher had assigned them the task to collect funds for the NGO.
The school children were also promised prizes if they collected a handsome amount, reports news agency The Press Trust of India (PTI).
However, when Srivastava contacted the NGO at their Lucknow number to seek financial assistance for a 3-year-old girl who was suffering from blood cancer, an NGO official refused any help, stating that the NGO collects funds to create awareness regarding cancer but doesn't give any aid to individual cases.
Srivastava also stated that upon further investigation by the Umang Foundation, it was revealed that at least four NGOs are "aggressively collecting money through school students in different districts of the state" and no receipts were being provided.
When Umang Foundation asked the Director of high education in this regard, Srivastava said that he "expressed ignorance and said that no such permission had been given to anybody".
Source: http://www.timesnow.tv/india/article/non-governmental-organisation-ngo-public-welfare-trust-himachal-pradesh/61250
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