FIFTY SIX NGOs BLACKLISTED BY SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY
FOR UNSATISFACTORY SERVICE
Fifty six Non Governmental Organisations
have been blacklisted and grant-in-aid suspended to three NGOs
by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. This was stated
by the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr. Satyanarayan
Jatiya in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today. He said that
the action has been taken after it was found on inspection that
their delivery of services was not commensurate with the funds
released by the Ministry. Dr. Jatiya said that maximum number
of 23 NGOs were blacklisted in Uttar Pradesh followed by 13 in
Andhra Pradesh, six in Maharashtra, four in Karnataka, three in
Rajasthan, two each in Bihar and Orissa and one each in Sikkim,
Tamil Nadu and Goa. He said that grant-in-aid has been suspended
to three NGOs, one each in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu
while the process has been initiated for recovery of mis-utilized
grant in case of NGO in Sikkim. Dr. Jatiya said that during 2001-2002,
the Ministry provided funds to 2,769 NGOs to carry out welfare
activities in various fields of social sector. He said that monitoring
and evaluation of performance of the NGOs receiving grant-in-aid
is carried out through inspection by the representatives of state
governments, nodal agencies and the Ministry's own officials.
