The Intelligence Bureau of India has prepared a report on how foreign-funded NGOs are “negatively impacting economic development” in India .The report, signed by IB Joint Director S A Rizvi,has called Greenpeace “a threat to national economic security”,and accuses Greenpeace of contravening laws to “change the dynamics of India’s energy mix”.
IB report claims serious negative impact of the NGOs’ role on GDP growth , even it are as high as to be “2-3 per cent per annum”.The bureau says Greenpeace’s ‘superior network’ of numerous pan-India organisations has helped conduct anti-nuclear agitations and mounted “massive efforts to take down India’s coal fired power plants and coal mining activity”. While Greenpeace will take on India’s IT sector over e-waste among other “next targets”, a prime and vital service industry sector in India.
INDIA HONEST is worried of a wide spread conspiracy against India, as the IB’s 21-page report said that several influential NGOs are involved but even more crucial is the fact, that the report finds seven vital sectors or projects have got stalled only because of such NGO-created agitations that were against nuclear power plants, uranium mines, coal-fired power plants, farm biotechnology, mega industrial projects, hydroelectric plants and extractive industries, the main international one singled out for criticism is Greenpeace.
IB report sees Greenpeace as the prime mover of mass-based movements against development projects. “It is assessed to be posing a potential threat to national economic security… growing exponentially in terms of reach, impact, volunteers and media influence,” it notes.
The efforts are focused on “ways to create obstacles in India’s energy plans” and to “pressure India to use only renewable energy” and here INDIA HONEST felt the utmost danger as in the recent election Kajriwal's AAP, a new political party has acted fast to attempt only to change the course of political equation in India.The foreign funding to AAP or such NGO's seems only intended to stall economic growth in India, it is one bigger security problem and it must be investigated properly.
The IB report claims Greenpeace’s “funding of research bodies” is a “massive effort” that has not attained high visibility so far. It says “To encourage Indian-ness of its anti-coal approach, Greenpeace has financed Tata Institute of Social Sciences to study health, pollution and other aspects at Mahan and plans to use this case to ban all coal blocks.”
IB report further says on the coal, that since 2010-11, Greenpeace has gradually expanded its activities to oppose coal-fired power plants and associated mining. In March 2013, the IB notes, Greenpeace and the Urban Emissions Conservation Action Trust published a “questionable technical report which claimed 1,00,000 deaths in FY 12 due to health problems arising from 111 existing coal-fired power plants in India”.
IB report further says on the coal, that since 2010-11, Greenpeace has gradually expanded its activities to oppose coal-fired power plants and associated mining. In March 2013, the IB notes, Greenpeace and the Urban Emissions Conservation Action Trust published a “questionable technical report which claimed 1,00,000 deaths in FY 12 due to health problems arising from 111 existing coal-fired power plants in India”.
INDIA HONEST demands that the new government must go through seriously and find the facts the IB report has called Greenpeace “a threat to national economic security”, citing activities ranging from protests against nuclear and coal plants and funding of “sympathetic” research, to allegedly helping out an political outfit Aam Aadmi Party and many other NGO's only to stall or stop all energy related projects in India.