Cleaning the NGO Landscape in India – Progress Made but it’s a Long Journey Popular perception is that non-governmental or voluntary organisations (NGOs/VOs) are organisations having social or humanitarian agendas, and are funded in their noble missions by philanthropists and other individual and institutional donors. NGO uniting platforms such as WANGO and INSO reinforce these perceptions with lofty declarations of serving humanity and promoting world peace. In an ideal world, every NGO should provide some form of social or humanitarian support to individuals and sections of society where governments may not be able to reach. India’s population size combined with finite resources with governments gives individuals and NGOs unlimited opportunities to promote such initiatives. So, how many NGOs does India really have? In 2013, triggered by a Public Interest Litigation seeking transparency in finances of an NGO run by social activist Anna Hazare, the Supreme Court asked the Ce