New Delhi, Nov 4: The Joint Committee on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill will meet on November 12 and hold consultations with diverse stakeholders, including BAPS, Oxfam, church leaders and lawyers, in back-to-back sessions, according to a meeting notice.
This will be the sixth meeting of the panel headed by BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal.
Panel members will interact with civil society, legal and policy voices. Oxfam International’s Amitabh Behar, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Executive Chairman Shardul Shroff, Pratham’s Farida Lambay, Supreme Court’s senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, PRS Legislative Research President M R Madhavan, advocate Vrinda Grover and environmental activist Debi Goenka will share their views on the Bill.
Later, Rev Sam Mishak of Apostles Methodist Church, Rev Asir Ebenezer of the National Council of Churches in India, Paul Dhinakaran of the Indian Christian Federation, Rev S Duraiswamy of the Evangelical Church of India, Anburajan of Jesus Redeems, and Zakir Thomas of NLSIU Bengaluru will also discuss their views with the committee.
Anant Kishnan of NFPRC Foundation, Anil Maheshwari of Rashtriya Sewa Bharati, Ashish Dhawan of The Convergence Foundation and Centre Square Foundation, the chief functionary of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, and Anil Gupta of Bhartiya Vitta Salhakar Samiti will also put forth their views.
Representatives of Lawyers for Democracy, which held the ‘March against CAA’ protest; Nationalist Lawyers Forum, considered close to Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad; Lawyers Voice; Bharat Collective and Lawyers of Justice; Prof. Sanjay Badhel and Bhupendra Singh Tomar of Shaanti Suraksha evam Sadbhav Trust will meet the panel.
Parliament referred the Bill to a 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on August 12.
The Bill proposes a designated authority to take control of, supervise, manage and dispose of foreign-funded assets belonging to organisations whose FCRA registration has ceased. (PTI)
