Reverend Paritosh Canning said the Calcutta diocese had 'only a few projects that are dependent on foreign contribution'. A home in Behala is one of those projects
In the past one year, more than 100s NGOs, including Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, headed by former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Oxfam India, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Care India have had their FCRA licences cancelled, suspended, denied renewal or deemed to have expired.
Various office bearers of CNI were found to be involved in the 'gross misappropriation of church properties through sale or renting out at much lower prices by showing the properties as deteriorating and encroached,' the probe agency said.
The church has done a lot in the nation-building process in India over the years and it is time to recognise this contribution, the Bishop of Calcutta (CNI) has said.