HCL grant for NGOs

Applications Open for Health, Education and Environment is open

Last date 4^th June 2018

Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in the area of rural development can apply for HCL grant, which is a funding from HCL Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of HCL Technologies.

Nidhi Pundhir, director - CSR and Head of HCL Foundation, said the commitment this year for HCL Grant is Rs. 16.5 crore. NGOs can apply for projects in the areas of environment, education, or healthcare, all related to rural development. The applications will be scrutinised by sectoral, financial, and management experts. There will be field-level verification for selected NGOs. Short-listed ones will go to the jury from each category for final selection. Three NGOs will go for the final selection in each category. The winning NGO will get Rs. 5 crore for a five year project and the other two will get Rs. 25 lakh each.

For more information please visit: http://hclgrant.hcltech.com/#About

LAST OPPORTUNITY FOR SUBMITTING FCRA ANNUAL RETURNS

FCRA Department has issued a notice to 3292 to organizations who have not  filed their annual return for the period from 2011-12 to 2016-17.

As per this notice, all these organizations have been given a time limit of 15 days (i.e. till 8^th May 2018) to submit their return. The status of the submission of annual return will be reviewed after 15 days of issue of the notice.  If any organization failed to submit the same, penal action will be taken against them.

It may be noted that evn if you have not rec'd Foreign Contribution during the above years, nill return must be filed. You can download the list of all these organisations from the link given below.

Please help us in sharing this information widely amongst all NGOs.

click here for list of organisation: https://fcraonline.nic.in/Home/PDF_Doc/FC_Notice_26042018.pdf

Latest FCRA notice for filing of Annual Return

This is to bring to your kind attention that FCRA department has issued a Notice dt. 24.04.18 providing yet another opportunity for NGOs to submit their pending Annual FCRA Return for the years  2011-12 to 2016-17. It is to be noted that earlier, vide notification no II/21022/36(207)/2015-FCRA –II dt 12.05.17 FCRA department had provided one month time i.e. from 15.05.17 to 14.06.17 for filing of the pending returns without any penalty. However, it has been observed that various organisations have not complied with the requirement. The FCRA department therefore provides this final opportunity to submit your pending Annual Returns, failing which necessary action will be initiated under Sec 14 of FCRA 2010 against the defaulting organizations.

 

The list of the organizations has been provided. For viewing the list of the organizations and Notice please click on the link here below:

https://fcraonline.nic.in/home /PDF_Doc/FC_Notice_26042018.pdf

 

All concerned organizations are requested to do the needful at the earliest. The time period given for filing of pending returns is 15 days from the date of issue of notice.