Dhaka, Nov. 9 -- Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday told Parliament that 722 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had their registrations cancelled and their operations shut down by the NGO Affairs Bureau between 2009 and 2024.

He said the registrations of the NGOs were cancelled for various reasons, including failure to apply for renewal within the stipulated time, embezzlement of funds through forgery of signatures, violation of conditions imposed at the time of registration and subsequent lawful directives of the Bureau, and submission of fake or forged Letter of Intent (LOI).

The minister said this in a scripted reply to a question from BNP lawmaker Md. Jalal Uddin (Kishoreganj-2).

Salahuddin Ahmed said NGOs were playing an ...