G K Dwivedi +FCRA +NEW DELHI: Four joint secretary-level officers in the home ministry have lodged a protest with home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi against the "unfair" suspension of their colleague, joint secretary, over renewal of the FCRA licence of Zakir Naik 's NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). "Dwivedi is an honest officer who has spearheaded the reforms in FCRA monitoring system to bring in greater transparency. Unfortunately, the FCRA online system software has no provision to automatically red-flag 'suspect' NGOs". The joint secretary comes into the picture only if the director finds the NGO on adverse list, and accordingly puts up the file to the higher authorities. So, it is intriguing that while the joint secretary was suspended, the director, who was sitting on the e-mails for a good three months, was not touched," an officer pointed out.

Source: Times of India September 05, 2016 01:10 UTC