HERE IS THE DETAILED CLARIFICATION RELATED TO THE DONATIONS RECEIVED BY GEER FOUNDATION THROUGH FORD FOUNDATIONS Hello Friends, I came across certain allegations from AAP supporters that Modi has taken money from Ford Foundation for GEER Foundation in the year 2002. I was startled by this info and thought of getting to the roots of it. First of all, I verified the GEER Foundation web page and confirmed that its actually governed by NaMo as Chairman at this point of time. Second, I went to the URL seen in the image to verify if the contribution is actually officially available on Ford Foundation portal. That too was a legitimate. fordfoundation.org/pdfs/library/ar2002.pdfAt that point I started to dig into further and checked all the Annual Reports available at Ford Foundation portal since 2000 up to 2013. And came across some amazing facts. None of the annual reports have GEER Foundation as beneficiary except the year of 2002. Reports for the years 2007, 2008, 2012, and 2013 are not published. I went father to check how many beneficiaries were there from Gujarat during all these years: 2000: 8 beneficiaries from Gujarat 2001: 7 2002: 5 (FY2002 - Funds to GEER Foundation) 2003: 2 2004: 2 2005: 4 2006: 1 2007: No data available 2008: No data available 2009: 0 2010: 0 2011: 0 2012: No data available 2013: No data available Now following are some facts I have collected from various sources: 1. Modi became Gujarat CM on 7 October 2001 2. The GEER Foundation was given funds by Ford Foundation in the FY2002 3. In US the Fiscal Year is different from what we have in India. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year#United_StatesUnited States The United States federal governments fiscal year is the 12-month period beginning on 1 October and ending on 30 September of the next calendar year. The identification of a fiscal year is the calendar year in which it ends; thus, the current fiscal year is 2014 (shortened to FY2014) which began on 1 October 2013 and will end on 30 September 2014. 4. Here is what Ford Foundation Grant Approval Guide lines says: fordfoundation.org/pdfs/about/Procedures_for_Approving_Affiliated_Grants.pdfAt the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees, the Committee shall provide to the Board of Trustees a complete list of all Affiliated Grants and their amounts considered during the previous fiscal year. Now summing up all the facts above, - The Fund approved by Board of Trustees of Ford foundation for GEER Foundation had to be applied, considered and filtered BEFORE 30-September-2001. - Modi became Gujarat CM on 7-October-2001. - This means, the grant was already applied by someone in previous government and NOT by Modi government. - Coming to after math, once Modi became CM, there has not been any government body which has acquired any fund from Ford Foundation till date. Request you to help in spreading this to as many people as possible. I am sure, together we can pass these facts to everyone
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:03:15 +0000
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