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Teesta's NGOs deny financial irregularities

Kashmir Times. Dated: 7/23/2015 11:36:55 PM

NEW DELHI, July 23 (Agencies): Facing closure notice, activist Teesta Setalvad's two NGOs - Citizens for Justice and Peace and Sabrang Trust - have conveyed to the Home Ministry that they have done no financial irregularities and no foreign contribution was misused by any of its office bearer.
The reply came in response to the notices served by the Home Ministry asking the NGOs why their registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act would not be cancelled as on-site inspection of records and books of accounts of the two found "irregularities and financial misappropriation".
Sabrang Trust said its primary activities include school education, information documentation and dissemination and advocacy.
The primary focus of Sabrang is on celebration, promotion of constitutional values (diversity, pluralism, communal amity, rule of law, impartial policing, accountability of state actors) and combating religious intolerance, hate propaganda, communal violence, terrorism, it said.
This project was funded by Ford Foundation between October 2009 and March 2013.
Between 2003 and 2014, Teesta Setalvad received an average of Rs 39,000 per month as honorarium for execution of specific projects of Citizens for Justice and Peace and Sabrang Trust funded by different donor agencies, it said.