VOLUNTARY organizations have increasingly been under pressure to meet regulatory requirements, find funds for causes and cope with COVID-19 and its fallout.
There is a sense that the current Union government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been making it difficult for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to function with changes in regulations on income tax and foreign contributions.
Some of the pressure, in fact, dates back to pre-2014 and the government led by the Congress, which, though supportive of social activists, began introducing regulatory requirements that voluntary organizations found difficult and irksome to comply with.
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