It is common knowledge that it is only the NGOs run by the retired bureaucrats, politicians and religious groups that are able to raise a significant amount of foreign funds on account of wider contacts and better networking (“NGOs’ foreign funds and trust deficit”, June 29). Other NGOs which operate on a smaller scale and with the true spirit of service to the deprived sections can raise foreign funds only to a limited extent. Therefore, treating nearly 13,000 NGOs as offenders of Indian laws regarding the use of foreign donations through totalitarian control is unfair in a functioning democracy. The big fish will always know the escape routes. The solution to the lack of trust is to make all NGO financial transactions transparent.
Rameeza A. Rasheed,Chennai
