On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 10:22 am, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Nagarjuna G. wrote:
List of board members is there on the fsf india page. None of the directors/board members get any salary. (the memorandm clearly says so by constitution). List of activities: too many to be listed. FSF India doesn't have money to print brochures to be sent to all the units in the country, send letters by post to a list of people whenever we want, no capital to print books, etc. (We already have a book to print urgently, a book in bangla written by DipankarDa) this book needs a budget of 100K we have only about 40k in the treasury). Most of the activities like meetings, workshops etc that a
FSF USA has some tax exemption status from the government. What is the process for a non-profit organization to get a similar status in India?
Maybe having such a status will encourage more people to contribute.
The procedure in India is to first get tax exemption for the organization. This we got recently. Now we have applied for extending this exemption to the donors of the organization. So this is already being processed. Let us hope after we get the exemption the situation will improve.
Nagarjuna