Journalists, politicians, judges can't accept foreign money under FCRA

Business Standard looks at FCRA and compiles information about people who can take foreign funding

On Wednesday, the Union home ministry cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), the country’s largest public health advocacy group, on the premise that the organisation was diverting funds and was involved in lobbying with politicians and the media. This is not the first time the ministry has cancelled FCRA license of a non-profit organisation. It has prohibited NGOs like Sabrang Trust, Lawyers Collective and Greenpeace in the past on similar grounds. According to information laid in Parliament, registration certificates of more than 10,000 NGOs have been cancelled from 2014-15 to