NEW DELHI: On March 10, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, Greenpeace Australia released a research briefing on "Adani's record of environmental destruction and non-compliance with regulations" in India. On June 3, within days of the swearing in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, allegedly close to industrialist Gautam Adani, IB gave a report naming Greenpeace among the local NGOs and foreign donors trying to "take down Indian development projects".In the 21-page report written by its joint director S A Rizvi, IB said: "Identified foreign donors cleverly disguise their donations as funding for protection of human rights, 'just deal' for project-affected displaced persons, protection of livelihood of indigenous people, protecting religious freedom, etc" Estimating that this disguise had set back the GDP by 2-3% per annum, IB alleged: "These foreign donors lead local NGOs to provide field reports, which are used to build a record against India and serve as tools for the strategic foreign policy interests of western governments."According to IB, some donors like Greenpeace International and CORDAID focus their efforts entirely on such activities, while others such as Action Aid, Amnesty International, etc dedicate a small portion of their annual donations to such projects under "varied veils such as democratic and unaccountable government, economic fairness, etc."It said that the "people-centric issues" fomented by NGOs violating the foreign contributions regulatory Act (FCRA) included agitations against nuclear power plants, uranium mines, coal-fired power plants, genetically modified organisams, mega industrial projects (POSCO and Vedanta), hydel projects (at Narmada Sagar and in Arunachal Pradesh) and extractive industries (oil, limestone) in the north-east.Regarding the anti-nuclear activism that had stalled the Russian-assisted Koodankulam project, IB said that the protests had been fuelled by the Ohio State University, which funded among others S P Udayakumar, who was one of AAP's candidates in the Lok Sabha election. "The larger conspiracy was unraveled when a German national provided Udayakumar a scanned map of all nuclear plant and uranium mining locations in India," the IB report said, adding, "The map included contact details of 50 Indian anti-nuclear activists revealing an intricate network aimed to take-down India's nuclear programme through NGO activism."As for the anti-coal activism, IB said that it had been spearheaded by US-based organizations and Greenpeace, which have formed a "coal network" to take down 455 proposed coal-based power stations in India. With NTPC being targeted as the "first offender" with 47 projects, Greenpeace has initiated protests through "front entities" against the proposal, for instance, of doubling the capacity of the 15,000 MW Singrauli project in Madhya Pradesh.While dealing with the anti-GMO activism, IB specified six NGOs, including Greenpeace, and five Indian activists, Vandana Shiva, Suman Sahai, Aruna Rodrigues, Prashant Bhushan and Kavitha Kuruganti. IB blamed their activism for the three-year moratorium on Bt Brinjal by the UPA government and the further restrictions recommended by a parliamentary standing committee and the Supreme Court-appointed technical expert committee.The stalling of mega industrial projects sucha as POSCO and Vedanta was attributed by IB to the role of European NGOs such as the UK-based Amnesty International, Action Aid and Survival International. Besides, the Dutch government-funded NGOs have slowly shifted their focus from human rights in Kashmir to the twin issues of violence against women and prevention of extractive industries in the north-east. CORDAID, for instance, plans to take down oil drilling in Manipur, big dams in Arunachal Pradesh and mining projects in Meghalaya.The IB report also devoted a section on "future plans to take down fresh economic development projects". In 2014, Greenpeace plans to campaign against palm oil imports from Indonesia, organize construction workers in urban areas and initiate action against disposal of e-waste by Indian IT firms. Other NGOs are expected to protest against various aspects of the Gujarat model of development such as interlinking of rivers, special investment regions and the Statue of Unity. IB also warned that Medha Patkar will be stepping up her agitation against the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.