The Centre has cancelled the Overseas Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of the Rajiv Gandhi Basis (RGF), a non-government organisation related to the Gandhi household, for alleged violations of the regulation, officers mentioned.
The motion got here after investigations carried out by an inter-ministerial committee fashioned by the house ministry in 2020.
“Sure, the FCRA licence of the Rajiv Gandhi Basis has been cancelled after an investigation in opposition to it,” an official mentioned.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of RGF whereas different trustees embrace former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former finance minister P Chidambaram, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Arrange in 1991, RGF labored on quite a few vital points together with well being, science and know-how, girls and youngsters, incapacity assist, and so on., from 1991 until 2009. It additionally labored within the training sector, in accordance with its web site.