When the US Commission for International Religious Freedom
(USCIRF) released its annual report, in which it has placed India in tier -2,
meaning that the religious freedom violations in India are serious, one can
understand that the war is on. USA has never acted in Similar fashion against
Autocrats, Dictators, Mass Murderers, Ethnic Cleansers, Usurpers of power,
Murderers of Democracy, War Criminals Terrorists Al Qaeda-ISI-LeT-TTP-Boko
Haram-Hamas-PLO-IM- Taliban etc. Then why they are so much agitated about the
violation of religious freedom, which in reality is violation of freedom to
exploit the masses? Any growing economy
is viewed as a threat and India is no exception. That this foul cry comes immediately after the
government announced curbs on more than ten thousand NGOs rips the secret open
as to who is the boss for all these civil society soldiers. Government action is
nothing but an acknowledgement of this war and a fitting constitutional
response to it. Several thousand crores
are being pumped into our country through these pseudo activists and many
development activities are put on hold by these mercenaries leading the country
to choke. According to a report given by Ministry of home affairs there are
more than 20 lakh NGOs in India, supposedly working for the welfare of the
society. Around 43000 of them receive foreign funding for their ‘activities’. Nearly
11500 crores were received in the year 2012, practically making them a parallel
economy. One may wonder with this many organisations working to alleviate
poverty, bring medical assistance to poor and education to the needy, why our
country doesn’t seem to show any signs of its impact. A report by IB says that
many of the NGOs which receive foreign funds are aimed at stalling development
projects in India. It further says that, “A significant number of Indian NGOs
(funded by some donors based in the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and
Scandinavian countries) have been noticed to be using people-centric issues to
create an environment which lends itself to stalling development projects.”
According to the report, the negative impact on GDP growth is assessed to be
2-3 per cent per annum. The 21-page report calls the NGOs’ activities
“anti-development” and has highlighted their plans for 2014. These include a
campaign against palm oil imports from Indonesia and disposal of e-waste of
Indian IT firms, organising construction workers in urban areas, protests
against identified projects such as Gujarat’s Special Investment Regions, Par-Tapi
Narmada River Interlinking Project and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
These dangerous conspiracies on the one hand exploit and harm the vulnerable
villagers and on the other hand weaken the entire nation’s economy. In a
troubled economy the scope for soul harvesting is more and the soul hunting
churches are always lurking behind these activists to exploit the masses. In
cases like Koodankulam power plant agitation church was seen prominently and in
fact leading the agitation, hoping that it would bring in lot more faithful
gullible people.
The fact remains that for many of these NGOs
their noble objectives remain only in their deed of memorandum and their actual
deeds will be to undermine the sovereignty of the nation. Government should follow a hot pursuit
against these NGOs and find where the money has actually gone. Exposing their
misdeeds is of paramount importance as these ‘activists’ were all these years
just hobnobbing with our corrupt politicians to get favors, but are now
directly entering the political arena and with a corrupt media they will be
shown as messiahs to the gullible society. There is dire need to enlighten the
society about these NGOs and their anti-national agendas.
V.V.Balasubramanian.
YB-ET.