Times of India, 14th Dec.2005
NEW
DELHI: As many as 355 NGOs, with the highest number of 113 in Bihar, have been
blacklisted because of their involvement in corrupt practices, Rural Development
Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on
Wednesday.
Responding to
supplementaries during Question Hour, he said out of these, 106 NGOs were
blacklisted due to submission of forged documents and no funds were released to
these NGOs.
He said over Rs
4.50 crore had been misutilised by these
NGOs.
The blacklisted NGOs in
Bihar accounted for the highest amount of misutilisation of Rs 87 lakh.