[Inpycon] Receiving funds from foreign sponsors

[Anand Chitipothu]

I spoke with an IAS officer dealing with FCR Act implementation about
the possibility of getting foreign funds. (see below for the actual
conversation).

In his opinion it is too tedious and time consuming to get prior approval.

I think it will more convenient to make the foreign sponsors pay the
travel expenses of the speaker.

Anand

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Venugopal <...>
Date: 2011/3/15
Subject: Re: Received the amount
To: narayana sarma <...>
Cc: anandology at gmail.com


Dear Narayana and Anand,
It is not a simple process for getting 'prior permission' under FCR
Act for this kind of activities.
The documentation and time involved would be formidable. But anyway,
if you want to make an attempt, you are
welcome.
The Act can be seen at
http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm
The present rules are at
http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/fcra-rules.pdf

Very soon the new Act is going to be notified.
The new Act passed by Parliament can be seen at
http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FC-RegulationAct-2010-C.pdf

The new rules are going to be notified soon. If you have any comments
on the new rules,
please take the trouble of going through them and suggesting
improvements, of course,
with the rider that the Rules cannot be inconsistent with the Act.

http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FC_Reg_2011Notice-210211.pdf

http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/Draft-FC-rules-2011.pdf

And remeber Khalil Gibran when he wrote about why we have the
intricate web of laws?

They are all there to catch small fish!

Venu

> [...]
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Narayana,
> >
> > Greetings from PyCon Atlanta.
> >
> > I need a small favor from you.
> >
> > We are thinking of getting some foreign sponsorship for running PyCon
> > India conference. The sponsorship money is managed by a society.  Can
> > you ask your brother and find out what is involved in doing so? How to
> > get permission and what can go wrong etc.
> >
> > Anand