New Delhi: Of the 380,000 NGOs in the country, only 10 percent inform the government how they spend their funds, the Central Bureau of Investigation informed the Supreme Court Friday in an affidavit.
The top court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation or PIL on regulating NGOs in the country.
The CBI wanted the top court to regulate the NGOs by stipulating a condition that they would not be eligible to receive funds if they did not file balance sheets for three years indicating the purpose for which the amounts were spent.
In its affidavit, the CBI said that 26 states had filed their response giving details of the NGOs registered in the respective states. Of a total of 29,99,623 trusts which are functioning as NGOs, only 290,7897 file balance sheets every year, NDTV reported.
There are 82,250 such NGOs registered in seven Union Territories of which only 50 have filed balance sheets. The list includes 580,000 NGOs in Uttar Pradesh, 518,000 in Maharashtra, 369,00 in Kerala, 136,000 in Rajasthan, 155,000 in Tamil Nadu and 29,000 in Andhra Pradesh.
The CBI said the remaining states had either not filed or filed incomplete information and unless there was regulation in flow of funds, it will be difficult to monitor their working.