NEW DELHI: The Modi government cancelled the foreign funding licence of 6,676 NGOs and associations over the past three years for violation of various provisions of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act.Minister of state for home Nityanand Rai stated in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that of the 6,676 organisations whose FCRA licence was scrapped between 2017 and 2019, 900 were registered under religious category, 2,531 under cultural category and 4,614 under educational category.He added that 2,214 NGOs were granted licence under FCRA between 2017 and 2019 in the religious, cultural and educational categories. Of these, 1011 were granted FCRA registration in 2017, 520 in 2018 and 683 in 2019.The registration of 4,866 NGOs was cancelled across all categories in 2017, that of 1 NGO in 2018 and of 1,809 NGOs in 2019, the Lok Sabha was further informed.As many as 627 NGOs in the religious category had their licence cancelled in 2017 and 273 in 2019. Similarly, 1,817 NGOs in cultural category lost their FCRA registration in 2017 and 714 in 2019. Also, among the ‘educational’ NGOs, the licence of 3,316 was cancelled in 2017, 1 in 2018 and 1,297 in 2019.Many associations/NGOs whose licence was cancelled had obtained registration certificate under FCRA for more than one programme, and hence they figure in more than one category in the relevant year.