Ayodhya Ram temple trust gets foreign funding licence

This comes in the backdrop of over 100 non-profits losing their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act licence in a seven-month period as of March 23.

Oct 18, 2023 - 23:30

Ayodhya Ram temple trust gets foreign funding licence

The Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to receive foreign funds for the construction of the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, announced the trust’s general secretary Champat Rai on Wednesday.

श्री राम जन्मभूमि तीर्थ क्षेत्र को विदेशी अंशदान विनियमन अधिनियम 2010 के अंतर्गत स्वैच्छिक योगदान (Voluntary Contribution) प्राप्त करने के लिए भारत सरकार के गृह मंत्रालय के FCRA विभाग ने मान्यता प्रदान कर दी है।

विदेशी स्त्रोतों से प्राप्त होने वाला कोई भी स्वैच्छिक योगदान केवल…— Champat Rai (@ChampatRaiVHP) October 18, 2023

The development comes in the backdrop of over 100 non-profits losing their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act licence in a seven-month period as of March 23. This includes Oxfam India, Centre for Policy Research, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and Program for Social Action.

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act regulates foreign contributions to Indian entities and their subsidiaries.

The rules under the law require any organisation that wants to register itself to have existed for at least three years and to have spent a minimum of Rs 15 lakh on its core activities during the last three financial years for the benefit of the society.

Rai had said earlier this month that the trust, overseeing the construction of the temple, had submitted an application...