Question : Monitoring of NGOs

(a) whether the Government has evolved an exclusive mechanism for monitoring and supervising the activities of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) under the Ministry;

(b) if so, the details and outcome thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;

(c) the details of NGOs found involved in irregularities including fake NGOs during each of the last three years and the current year, State-wise;

(d) the action taken by the Government against the said NGOs including recovery of the grants provided to them, State-wise; and

(e) the grants released by the Government to NGOs under various social welfare schemes during the said period, State-wise?

MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
(SHRI VIJAY SAMPLA)

(a) & (b): The Ministry monitors and supervises the activities of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in following ways:

i. In order to ensure transparency, only online proposals by NGOs through e-ANUDAAN portal are considered for release of grants-in-aid.

ii. The proposals of NGOs are considered on the basis of recommendations of the State/UT Governments, satisfactory inspection reports of the State/UT Governments and completeness of the proposals in all respects as per the norms and guidelines of the schemes.

iii. Subsequent grants are released to the implementing agencies, only on receipt of audited statement of accounts duly verified by Chartered Accountants and utilization certificates of the grants released in the previous year.

iv. Performance of the NGOs are also monitored from time to time through random surprise inspections conducted by officers of this Ministry and representatives of State Governments.

On the basis of the inspection report, necessary corrective action is taken. In respect of deficiencies reported, show cause notices are issued to the NGOs concerned and follow up action is taken on the basis of the replies received. In cases of misuse of funds, malfunctioning, non-functioning or deficient performance etc., the defaulting NGO is blacklisted and grant from the Government to the project is discontinued, after following the extant procedure.

v. The Ministry sponsors evaluation studies from time to time through independent evaluation agencies, inter-alia, to check proper utilization of funds by the implementing agencies under various Schemes/Programmes.

(c) & (d): The details of NGOs found involved in irregularities under various schemes of the Ministry during last three years and current year and action taken against them are at Annexure-I

(e): The details of grants-in-aid released to NGOs under various schemes of the Ministry during last three years and current year are at Annexure-II.



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