NGOs meddling with the sovereignty of Sri Lanka
It has now ( December 2006) been disclosed that the NGOs operating in Sri Lanka have been engaging in activities that pose a threat to the governance and the sovereignty of the country. These matters were revealed at the meeting of the Parliamentary Select Committee chaired by Vijitha Herath (pictured), member of  parliament of the Peoples Liberation Front.
            According to the findings of a survey carried out by the Central Bank, during the year 2005 256 NGOs have since the Tsunami disaster received from local and foreign sources aid amounting to a sum of Rs:40.1 billion. Out of that, 73% of the aid from foreign sources was received by 30 NGOs. Although these 30 NGOs have withdrawn 85% of the money from the relevant banks, it has been disclosed  that the amount of Tsunami reconstruction work done is at a very low level.
             Although 59 NGOs have signed agreements with RADA (Reconstruction and Development Agency) organization to build 65,782 houses for the Tsunami victims, it has now been proved that they have so far built only 3270 houses. Among the network of NGOs were international NGOs too. For example, the Red Cross organization which signed agreements to build 15000 houses  have completed only 300 houses, and Sodek organization 74 houses out of a promised 2600. Even the TRO affiliated to LTTE, having signed agreements to build 639 houses, has completed 100 houses only.
            In spite of the fact that they bought vehicles and much other equipment with tax concessions after the Tsunami, nothing had been used for Tsunami re-construction work. However since the Tsunami, NGO activities in Sri Lanka seem to have immensely increased under the cover of Tsunami disaster.
            With the detection of a dead body of a person who had been in the employment of Care International  together with some corpses of LTTE terrorists, the military connection between NGOs and the LTTE terrorists came to light.
            The printing of an academic school book for children under the title of ' Jumbo that found Peace', and recommending it and distribution of the same among the schools in the Anuradapura district by an NGO called 'Plan Sri Lanka', clearly shows how the NGOs are mediating to give the required ideological strength to separatist  terrorism too.
            The lack of adequate and strong legal provisions with in the country, either to ban or to take legal actions against the NGOs such as those which pose a threat to the national security and help LTTE terrorists directly or indirectly for separatist activities and are engaged in illegal activities, have become a big problem now.
            At present NGOs can be registered and function  by a private motion  made by a member of parliament, under a normal registrar, or in the department of social services .  But whatsoever the way in which they are established  there is no mechanism  in Sri Lanka to examine or monitor their activities . Moving away from the stated purposes they were registered for, many NGOs have come to a position of engaging in subversive or illegal actions.