“The right side of the law”

The recently introduced capnewsviews.blogspot.in of the Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy (CAP), managed jointly by chief executive officer Noshir Dadrawala and chief operating officer Meher Gandevia-Billimoria, provides updates on the Lokpal Act, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, Income-tax Act and other related issues, states an email from Dadrawala.
A Bombay based support organization, CAP specializes in all the laws that regulate India’s non-profit sector and provides complete compliance solutions to organizations involved in philanthropic activity, as per its website www.capindia.in It was established in 1986 with a mandate to be a credible and comprehensive resource on charitable activity in India, chiefly the many and complex legalities that govern such activity, and advance the cause of philanthropy.
As Dadrawala states in the email, CAP has always maintained that being on the right side of the law is not just an existential necessity — as failure to do so attracts penalties, the potential for de-registration and other potentially harsh punishments and sanctions — but also critical to efficiency. This is because compliant organizations are usually some of the best managed and most effective ones. Espousing compliance as an internal organizational value has never been more important than it is at present. In sum, and taking inspiration from an oft-quoted adage, it is not just enough to do good and be seen to doing good, one must be good.