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Publication: Indian Currents
Date: June 18-24, 2007
Cracking its whip on fake non-government organizations, the Rural Development Ministry has ordered blacklisting of 600 NGOs, lodging FIRs against 21 others and handing over 10 cases to CBI. "We have to stop the scam involving public money," Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh told reporters.
He said efforts by his ministry to stem the rot has led to some amount of correction in the functioning of the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), which funded the NGOs (Times of India, 14-6-07).