CORE statement on Intelligence Bureaus (IB) classified report Impact of NGOs on Development :: Imphal: 16th June 2014 The Centre for Organisation Research and Education (CORE) expresses its outrage regarding the recent news of an Intelligence Bureaus (IB) classified report Impact of NGOs on Development apparently leaked to select national news papers by dragging COREs name into an unknown entity by the name Manipur Coalition on Extractives while fallaciously alleging the organisation as routing funds through NGOs Chindu and Swadhikar for activism against oil drilling in Manipur and contributing to the negative impact on Indias GDP growth assessed to be 2 - 3 % p.a. The Times of India report by one Bharti Jain titled Dutch-funded NGO trying to stall oil drilling in northeast: IB report of 14 June 2014. We dismiss this reported classified document mentioned in the media, and its alleged contents as a leveling of charges without any evidence to support its claims and an obvious attempt to muzzle the fundamental freedoms of speech and association, the right to information that are guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. We are acutely aware that the leaking of such a classified document is designed to whip up public sentiment and its fictitious allegations made against the organisation may be amounting to outright libel, slander and defamation. Read Full PR @ goo.gl/ISLho9
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:58:38 +0000
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