Key Points
Sequoia Climate Foundation, one of the largest and fastest growing climate funders in the world, is understood to have been put on the watch list' by Indias ministry of home affairs (MHA)...
With this Sequoia --- unconnected to the eponymous venture capital fund -- joins overseas donors whose contributions to any non-government and non-profit organisation in the country would be cleared only after the ministry approves a remittance...
In the past two years several international donors found themselves in the governments prior reference list (PRC) of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, an emergency era law that was enacted to counter foreign forces suspected to undermine political and parliamentary institutions..
The ministry, its perceived, may also have reservations about a foreign donor if it believes it is connected to (or, has received funding from) --- any of the overseas organisations in the PRC list or has links with persons who have been critical of the government...
The law on foreign contribution was tightened in 2020Many NGOs receiving foreign funds came under are glareRemittances by multiple foreign foundations were blockedSmaller NGOs depending on larger ones were hurt.
