4. .
As of July 2016, 33,091 NGOs were registered under the
Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, which regulates
foreign funding to these bodies.
A total of 3,068 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) received
foreign funding above Rs. 22,000 crore in 2014-15, according to
government data presented in response to a question in Parliament.
These are NGOs who reported receiving more than Rs. 1 crore from
foreign donors. This amount was 83.3 per cent (nearly double) more
than the Rs. 12,000 crore received by 2,301 such NGOs during 2013-
14. As much as Rs. 7,300 crore — or 33 per cent of the total — went to
NGOs based in Delhi and Tamil Nadu alone.
In fact, 80 per cent of this funding went to NGOs based in seven States
— Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka and West Bengal.
As of July 2016, 33,091 NGOs were registered under the Foreign