The Intelligence Bureau of India 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”. It 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”.
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 that there is suspicion of wide spread conspiracy against India as several influential NGOs are involved as per the IB’s 21-page report,but 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 report also accuses Greenpeace, “actively aided and led by foreign activists visiting India”, of violating the provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 2010 (FCRA), and financing “sympathetic studies” at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and at IIT-Delhi.
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 utmost danger as in the recent election Kajriwal's AAP, a new political party has acted fast to attempt to change the course of political equation in India.The foreign funding to AAP or such NGO's to stall economic growth in India is bigger security problem and it must be investigated properly.
Though the FCRA provisions debar organisations getting foreign funding from political activity,but one former Greenpeace consultant Pankaj Singh has deep political connection with the Aam Admi party, that has been often accused of getting huge funding from foreign sources including Ford Foundation.
Pankaj Singh is now accused of getting fund for his po9litical activities as he stood as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Sidhi Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh in the recent general elections. Mahan coal mines, against which Greenpeace has been protesting, fall under this constituency.
The IB report says that Aam Admi party leader Pankaj Singh’s organisation Mahan Sangharsh Samiti, which is leading the agitation in Singrauli district against both public and private sector coal mines, received regular funding from Greenpeace and Pankaj Singh is the Samiti’s co-founder.
Among Greenpeace’s “future threats”, the report talks of the organisation renewing its campaign internationally to highlight that Indian IT/ITeS firms do not meet global standards on e-waste emissions.
Greenpeace Bangalore possibly in association with the new party AAP, has focused its attention only on Indian IT firms while staying mum on multinational IT firms, the report says. Asked about the source of funding of Greenpeace, Sinha said: “Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that does not accept any donation from corporate or government entities. In the year 2013-2014, Greenpeace India raised around Rs 20 crore from over 3 lakh individual supporters in India.”
Greenpeace Bangalore possibly in association with the new party AAP, has focused its attention only on Indian IT firms while staying mum on multinational IT firms, the report says. Asked about the source of funding of Greenpeace, Sinha said: “Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that does not accept any donation from corporate or government entities. In the year 2013-2014, Greenpeace India raised around Rs 20 crore from over 3 lakh individual supporters 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 Aam Aadmi Party candidate in the recent Lok Sabha elections.