Relief India Trust Relationship with the Government of India

Relief India Trust or any other NGO relationships with its government is critically important for the smooth performance of its operational activities. The government is the only body that can provide sophisticated resources to the NGO. A lot of times, the NGOs also depend on the government to provide them with the necessary funds in order to perform the relief work. The Relief India Trust has always given utmost importance to its relationship with the government. It is or this reasoning that they don’t have many difficulties in carrying out their routine social and relief work.

Challenges Posed by Government for the NGOs:

In order to take the state benefits by the NGO, the state government enforces several challenges. The NGOs need to tackle all those challenges intelligently so that its relationship with the government doesn't get restrained and they also get the necessary resources which they were looking for. According to a recent research, the NGOs still have to face a great number of challenges in managing the administrative and operational structure of their NGO. If the challenges are not met appropriately by the NGO, then the working environment of an NGO can become extremely difficult to work in. 

The Relief India Trust also back this research based on their own experiences.

Further, the NGOs with unstable environment, create a negative impact on its stakeholders. It can easily lose its good reputation and the donors might not be interested to donate anything more to such unstable NGOs. One critical challenge that NGOs in India can face is that the government reserves the right to obstruct or also facilitate a certain activity initiated by an NGO. It might be due to some difficult relationships between the government and NGO. The government can also have objections with the activities of an NGO or maybe they are not doing the things the way it should be done. Further, there might also be some political interference which can force the government to obstruct or discontinue its services for a particular NGO. NGOs in any such situation are at the receiving end and their betterment is dependent solely on how the government would treat them.

At times, most of such things are beyond the control of the NGOs. The best NGOs could do is to do their best in their operational activities with full concentration on the motive. Their performance should be such that nobody could question their credibility. Further, the representative of the NGO dealing with the government officials should try to establish very friendly relationship. They should always look to update the government about all their social work progress on a regular basis and take their approval. Moreover, the NGO should also try to play its part in most of the government work that is being done for the benefit of the society. It is all about give and take. You have to give something or support the government if you want the same for yourself in return.