Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 14 2008:
USER MANIPUR today has demanded to make open the names of the NGOs who failed to submit fund utilization certificates authorities in reply to the Manipur AIDS Control Society (MACS) allegation of not releasing the funds due to non-submission of the UCs by the NGOs.
Speaking at a press conference at its office at Keishampat, secretary research and information of USER Manipur reiterated that due to the non-release of the funds, NGOs working in the field of HIV/AIDS have been suspending awareness programme on the disease.
Whether the funds have been curtailed by NACO after documents require for audit in the MACS's custody were burnt down or due to non-submission of fund utilization certificates is a questionable one, he observed.
It is a matter of concern when authorities observed the World AIDS Day by spending funds amounting to Rs 20,000 to Rs.30,000 blocking the funds require by the NGOs to spread awareness to stop spreading the disease, he said.