KOLKATA: The ministry of home affairs has restored the registration of Missionaries of Charity under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) a few days after rejecting its renewal application due to “adverse inputs”.
Friday’s move comes after the MoC submitted a fresh set of papers and will enable the organisation founded by Mother Teresa to receive fresh foreign funding and utilise the ones lying in its FCRA account for philanthropic work.
After the rejection of its application, the organisation had asked its 240-odd homes for orphans, destitutes and AIDS patients not to operate its foreign contribution bank accounts, forcing them to temporarily curtail expenses.
On Friday, however, MoC was added to the list of NGOs eligible to receive foreign funding in Bengal.
The news was immediately hailed by well-wishers .
“The power of love and service has won. We thank God for touching the hearts of the authorities and showing them the truth. We thank the authorities for seeing the truth,” said Catholic Association of Bengal president Angelina Mantosh Jasnani.
