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Suspension of IAS officer for licence renewal of Zakir Naik's NGO draws flak

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September 5, 2016

Mumbai, Sep 5: Days after Union Ministry of Home Affairs suspend a Joint Secretary and his subordinates for the online renewal of Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik's NGO, the colleagues of the victims petitioned Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi to convey that great injustice had been done to the honest officers.zakir-naik

The Joint Secretary, G.K. Dwivedi, a 1993 batch IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre was suspended along with two Under Secretaries and a section officer on September 2 for alleged dereliction of duty.

One of the officers Kumar Alok who met the Home Secretary said, “We rate him as an officer of highest level of integrity, he has implemented so many projects including the merger of PIO-OIC card that was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madison Square in U.S in 2014.”

Another official said that the online system, through which Dr. Naik's NGO — the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) licence was renewed does not have any provisions for “red-flagged” NGOs.

“There is no manual interface. While the red flagging is manual, the renewal of licence is electronic. Great injustice has been done to him but we believe in the system that it will be corrected,” said a senior home ministry official.

It is learnt that Mr. Dwivedi had written on several occasions to the National Informatics Centre, the government's web services organisation to upgrade the software to reflect the NGOs, which had adverse reports against them or had been sent inspection notices.

“He is a victim of his own reforms. This online system to weed out corruption from FCRA wing was spearheaded by him. Had everything been renewal, this goof up would have never happened,” said another official.

Dr. Naik's IRF was sent an inspection notice on August 8 and the automatic renewal of licence was done on August 19. Another official said that one of the suspended Under Secretary — Deepak Kumar had also sought transfer from the FCRA wing on several occasions owing to the risks involved with the division.

The Home Ministry had switched to an online renewal system for FCRA registered NGOs earlier this year and the idea was to reduce the human interface after several complained of bribes sought by officials to renew their licences.

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muthhu
 - 
Monday, 5 Sep 2016

Why Doctor Zakir Naik's NGO is been treated despite having clear accounts ....only motto is to make Bakths Happy for sometime

PK
 - 
Monday, 5 Sep 2016

Day by Day cheddis will face more troubles...

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Mangaluru, Feb 28: Sleuths of Bajpe police station have busted a counterfeit currency racket and arrested two persons on charge of printing and circulating fake currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 200.

The arrested have been identified as Dheerendra (45), a resident of Kanjilakody House in Bantwal taluk, and Sudheer Poojary (44), a resident of Adyar Volabail. Both of them said to be activists of Hindutva groups and had campaigned for BJP during last Lok Sabha polls.

Apart from counterfeit currencies, the cops have recovered a colour printer, two mobile phones and a motor bike from the accused.

According police, on February 23 the miscreants went to a petty shop owned by one Abdul Salam near Suralpady and purchased a Gillette blade costing Rs 20. They handed over Rs 200 currency note to Abdul Salam and took Rs 180 back from him.

However, the shop keeper grew suspicious about the genuineness of Rs 200 note. When he went in search of the duo, he came to know that they had purchased mustard seeds from a nearby provision store belonging to one Muhammad Arif. There too, they had handover Rs 200 fake note and got change.

The duo then took fake notes back from Abdul Salam and Muhammad Arif and escaped. The next day, Abdul Salam filed a complaint with Bajpe police station.

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Around 8.25 lakh students are to appear for the Class 10 exam.

"I appeal to SSLC students not to get frustrated. I know you're fully prepared, fully geared up. But this is a peculiar situation which calls for hard decisions. The new timetable will be published very soon. Students should treat is as an extended study leave. Please revise more. Do not treat this as a relaxation time. You'll have plenty of time to relax after the exams," he said.

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