NEW DELHI: American NGOs fund the protests that hold India back from building the nuclear reactors it needs to meet fast-growing energy needs, the country's prime minister said in an interview published in Science magazine on Friday.| Which of the consortium of NGOs amongst Open Society, Ford, Carnegie, etc? |
"The atomic energy program has got into problems because these NGOs, mostly I think based in the United States, don't appreciate the need for our country to increase the energy supply," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the interview Singh also blamed protests against genetically modified crops on groups he said were funded from the United States and Scandinavian countries.
| The NGOs are into protesting all sorts of stuff that they don't like. They'll even take money from your competitors and protest against you. |
Protesters at Kudankulam in southern India have denied that they get overseas financing, and say an interior ministry investigation into the accounts of dozens of protest groups in the area turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India are allowed to receive foreign financing, with certain restrictions. A member of Singh's cabinet on Friday said three NGOs had lost their license to operate for inappropriately using funds.
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