New Delhi: Organisations that can suggest ways to “reduce religiously-motivated violence and discrimination in India” would be given a grant of $493,827 (Rs 3.2 crore). The grant was announced by the US.
As reported by the Telegraph, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the US state department has made separate allocations of equal amount for India and Sri Lanka for projects that promote religious freedom.
US based NGOs, non-profit organisations and business are eligible to apply.
The India programme is seeking proposals to develop early warning systems to mitigate large-scale violence, conflict mitigation programmes between minority and majority groups, counter hateful public messages and report religious freedom violations.