The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011

Schedule Purposes for Registration

Chapter: Schedule · Schedule

SCHEDULE

Purposes for Registration

[See rule 9 (1B)]

VI. Religious:

Sl. No.

Purposes/ Activities

Construction, renovation, and maintenance of temples, mosques, churches, gurudwaras, monasteries, synagogues, and other places of worship.

Preservation, printing, translation, and digitisation of sacred scriptures and commentaries used in liturgy.

Preservation and support of institutions engaged in the study, documentation, and preservation of religious philosophy, theology and religious history (excluding proselytisation).

Provision of amenities for pilgrims at heritage religious sites (drinking water, sanitation, shelter).

Setting up of dharamshalas, langars, annadans, and community kitchens under religious auspices.

Conduct of religious education, moral instruction, satsangs, discourses, and meditation retreats (excluding proselytisation).

Promotion of devotional music, chants, theatre, and liturgical arts.

Documentation, preservation, and revival of indigenous and tribal faith practices, rituals and systems of worship (excluding proselytisation).

Protection of sacred relics, shrines, places of worship, and archaeological religious heritage primarily associated with religious practice.

Archiving, digitisation, and oral-history recording of religious rituals, festivals, and traditions of faith communities.

Inter-faith dialogue, harmony-building programmes, and peace initiatives through religious institutions.

Religious publications, journals, and faith-based research.

Establishment of religious libraries, museums, and archives.

Faith-based counselling centres, de-addiction centres, and social care programmes operated through religious organisations.

Training in traditional sacred crafts: idol-making, church art, calligraphy of scriptures, iconography, etc.

Burial/ cremation ground development and maintenance.

VII. Cultural:

Sl. No.

Purposes/ Activities

Archaeological exploration, excavation, conservation, and restoration of monuments, heritage sites, forts, and palaces.

Establishment and maintenance of museums, archives, libraries, cultural interpretation centres, and heritage walks.

Documentation, preservation, and promotion of folk songs, dances, oral epics, storytelling, and puppetry.

Support for classical performing arts: Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Carnatic music, Hindustani music, Yakshagana, etc.

Promotion of contemporary arts inspired by Indian traditions (excluding political/ ideological content): visual arts, sculpture, cinema, photography, design.

Training and capacity-building for artisans, craftspersons, handloom weavers, potters, woodworkers, and metal workers.

Preservation of non-religious manuscripts, palm-leaf texts, paintings, frescoes, and rare cultural artefacts.

Promotion and preservation of regional languages, dialects, and scripts, including translation projects.

Establishment of literary academies, support to writers, poets, and translators, and organisation of book fairs.

Support to tribal and indigenous cultural heritage, including festivals, crafts, oral traditions, languages, and customs, excluding religious rituals and worship practices.

Organisation of national and international cultural festivals, fairs, and exhibitions.

Development of craft villages, heritage circuits, art hubs, and cultural tourism facilities.

Promotion of traditional culinary practices, traditional sports, food festivals, and culinary heritage preservation.

Research in cultural anthropology, ethnography, and folk studies.

Archiving and digitisation of films, radio programmes, theatre scripts, and photographs.

Documentation and preservation of traditional knowledge systems as intangible cultural heritage (e.g., Ayurveda manuscripts, tribal medicine practices).

Preservation of scientific and knowledge heritage (astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy manuscripts, traditional technologies).

Documentation and archiving of modern historical movements and oral histories of national importance (freedom struggle, social reform, etc.).

VIII. Economic:

Sl. No.

Purposes/ Activities

Agricultural development programmes: farmer training, non-commercial input support, organic farming promotion.

Allied activities: dairy farming, animal husbandry, poultry, fisheries, sericulture, apiculture (non-commercial).

Formation and strengthening of farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), cooperatives, and self-help groups (SHGs).

Microfinance, microcredit, and community savings institutions for poor households.

Vocational training and livelihood-linked short-term skilling programmes (non-formal) not leading to recognised educational qualifications.

Promotion of rural and cottage industries such as weaving, pottery, handicrafts, and agro-processing, undertaken with non-profit and community welfare orientation.

Support for socially-oriented micro, small, and medium enterprises operating on a non-profit or community-benefit basis.

Women's entrepreneurship promotion: tailoring, food processing, handicrafts, small-scale manufacturing.

Skill incubation centres and employability-oriented digital skilling programmes for youth (IT, coding, electronics).

Infrastructure creation for livelihoods: rural haats, cold storages, community processing units.

Promotion of fair-trade, ethical supply chains, and eco-friendly businesses.

Encouragement of sustainable community livelihood models in eco-tourism, and homestays.

Fisheries and aquaculture livelihood training for coastal and inland communities.

Green economy livelihoods: solar technicians, e-waste handlers, recycling units.

Job placement services, employment exchanges, and market linkages for trained youth.

Food processing and value addition units.

Digital literacy, financial literacy, technology access, and digital inclusion programmes for livelihood enhancement and economic inclusion of rural and marginalised communities.

Livelihood support for migrant workers and vulnerable groups, including temporary shelter-linked employment opportunities.

Community renewable energy enterprises (solar, biogas, micro-grids) generating local jobs.

IX. Educational:

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Purposes/ Activities

Establishment and management of educational institutions and facilities, including early childhood education centres, schools, colleges, universities, hostels, libraries, reading rooms, and community learning centres.

Scholarships, fellowships, stipends, and financial aid for disadvantaged students.

Adult literacy, continuing education, and night schools for workers.

Inclusive education for marginalized children and differently-abled children with Braille, sign language, and assistive technologies.

Teacher training institutes, refresher courses, and academic fellowships.

Establishment and running of technical, industrial, and vocational education institutions leading to recognised certification, diploma, degree, or accreditation.

Research institutions, think-tanks, innovation labs, and academic chairs.

Digital education platforms, smart classrooms, e-libraries, and distance learning.

Girls' education initiatives: residential schools, hostels, scholarships.

Education for children of migrant workers, refugees, and nomadic tribes.

Bridge courses, remedial coaching, and dropout reintegration programmes.

Environmental education (including climate change, biodiversity awareness etc.) programs in schools/ colleges.

STEM education programmes, science clubs, and innovation fairs.

Structured Sports education and training academies attached to schools/ colleges.

Language teaching, translation studies, and linguistic training.

Career counselling centres, mentorship programmes, and educational placement cells.

Higher academic fellowships abroad in government-recognised institutions for meritorious students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Value-based and ethics education in schools.

Awareness programmes on constitutional rights, fundamental duties, and civic responsibilities, strictly non-political in nature.

Disaster preparedness education: mock drills, safety training, and community insurance literacy.

Digital inclusion initiatives: assistive technologies for differently-abled students, rural e-learning hubs.

Youth leadership and civic engagement programmes.

X. Social:

Sl. No.

Purposes/ Activities

Establishment and operation of hospitals, community health centres, dispensaries, mobile health clinics, ambulance services, patient transport facilities, and emergency medical response systems.

Preventive healthcare: vaccination drives, health awareness camps, vector-borne disease control.

Maternal and child healthcare, including maternity homes, neonatal care, nutrition supplementation, nutrition rehabilitation, and community-based management of malnutrition.

Nutrition and food security programmes, including midday meals, community kitchens, feeding programmes, grain banks, ration support, and hunger-relief initiatives.

Drinking water supply projects, community RO plants, and piped water schemes.

Sanitation: construction of toilets, hygiene awareness, menstrual health initiatives.

Orphanages, foster care, adoption support, and child protection homes.

Old-age homes, day-care centres, geriatric clinics, and pensions facilitation.

Disability care, including provision of assistive devices, rehabilitation services, therapy, vocational support, caregiver support, and community inclusion programmes.

Rehabilitation centres for drug addicts, alcoholics, and substance abusers.

Mental health counselling centres, suicide prevention helplines, and community psychiatry.

Women's safety and empowerment: shelters, legal aid, self-defence training.

Anti-trafficking programmes: rescue, rehabilitation, vocational reintegration.

Homeless shelters, night shelters, low-cost housing, and rehabilitation facilities for homeless, destitute, abandoned, and vulnerable persons.

Legal aid clinics, paralegal training, and access-to-justice programmes.

Disaster relief, emergency response, and post-disaster rehabilitation relating to floods, earthquakes, cyclones, pandemics, and similar calamities.

Provision of basic civic and community infrastructure such as electrification, rural roads, solar lighting, and community halls, strictly on a non-commercial, community-welfare basis.

Community-based environmental protection and restoration (afforestation, biodiversity parks, mangrove projects).

Water harvesting and watershed management for community welfare and drinking water security.

Waste management at community level (solid waste, e-waste, plastic-free campaigns, recycling units).

Road safety: awareness, trauma-care centres, first-aid training.

Operation of community radio stations, helplines, and awareness platforms, subject to compliance with applicable broadcasting, telecom, and IT regulations.

Rehabilitation and reintegration of released prisoners.

Support to victims of domestic violence, dowry harassment, and acid attacks.

Community-level sports and recreation facilities for underprivileged children and youth (non-institutional).

Animal Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation

Public health research: disease mapping, epidemiology, and health data systems.

Palliative care and hospice services for terminally ill patients.

Community blood banks, eye banks, and organ donation awareness.

Pre-disaster risk reduction, mitigation, preparedness, and resilience programmes, including flood control works, cyclone shelters, early-warning dissemination, community drills, and community emergency response teams.

1. Ins. by S.O. 3272(E), dated 22nd June, 2026 (Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026).

SCHEDULE

Purposes for Registration

[See rule 9 (1B)]

VI. Religious:

Sl. No. | Purposes/ Activities
1 | Construction, renovation, and maintenance of temples, mosques, churches, gurudwaras, monasteries, synagogues, and other places of worship.
2 | Preservation, printing, translation, and digitisation of sacred scriptures and commentaries used in liturgy.
3 | Preservation and support of institutions engaged in the study, documentation, and preservation of religious philosophy, theology and religious history (excluding proselytisation).
4 | Provision of amenities for pilgrims at heritage religious sites (drinking water, sanitation, shelter).
5 | Setting up of dharamshalas, langars, annadans, and community kitchens under religious auspices.
6 | Conduct of religious education, moral instruction, satsangs, discourses, and meditation retreats (excluding proselytisation).
7 | Promotion of devotional music, chants, theatre, and liturgical arts.
8 | Documentation, preservation, and revival of indigenous and tribal faith practices, rituals and systems of worship (excluding proselytisation).
9 | Protection of sacred relics, shrines, places of worship, and archaeological religious heritage primarily associated with religious practice.
10 | Archiving, digitisation, and oral-history recording of religious rituals, festivals, and traditions of faith communities.
11 | Inter-faith dialogue, harmony-building programmes, and peace initiatives through religious institutions.
12 | Religious publications, journals, and faith-based research.
13 | Establishment of religious libraries, museums, and archives.
14 | Faith-based counselling centres, de-addiction centres, and social care programmes operated through religious organisations.
15 | Training in traditional sacred crafts: idol-making, church art, calligraphy of scriptures, iconography, etc.
16 | Burial/ cremation ground development and maintenance.

VII. Cultural:

Sl. No. | Purposes/ Activities
1 | Archaeological exploration, excavation, conservation, and restoration of monuments, heritage sites, forts, and palaces.
2 | Establishment and maintenance of museums, archives, libraries, cultural interpretation centres, and heritage walks.
3 | Documentation, preservation, and promotion of folk songs, dances, oral epics, storytelling, and puppetry.
4 | Support for classical performing arts: Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Carnatic music, Hindustani music, Yakshagana, etc.
5 | Promotion of contemporary arts inspired by Indian traditions (excluding political/ ideological content): visual arts, sculpture, cinema, photography, design.
6 | Training and capacity-building for artisans, craftspersons, handloom weavers, potters, woodworkers, and metal workers.
7 | Preservation of non-religious manuscripts, palm-leaf texts, paintings, frescoes, and rare cultural artefacts.
8 | Promotion and preservation of regional languages, dialects, and scripts, including translation projects.
9 | Establishment of literary academies, support to writers, poets, and translators, and organisation of book fairs.
10 | Support to tribal and indigenous cultural heritage, including festivals, crafts, oral traditions, languages, and customs, excluding religious rituals and worship practices.
11 | Organisation of national and international cultural festivals, fairs, and exhibitions.
12 | Development of craft villages, heritage circuits, art hubs, and cultural tourism facilities.
13 | Promotion of traditional culinary practices, traditional sports, food festivals, and culinary heritage preservation.
14 | Research in cultural anthropology, ethnography, and folk studies.
15 | Archiving and digitisation of films, radio programmes, theatre scripts, and photographs.
16 | Documentation and preservation of traditional knowledge systems as intangible cultural heritage (e.g., Ayurveda manuscripts, tribal medicine practices).
17 | Preservation of scientific and knowledge heritage (astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy manuscripts, traditional technologies).
18 | Documentation and archiving of modern historical movements and oral histories of national importance (freedom struggle, social reform, etc.).

VIII. Economic:

Sl. No. | Purposes/ Activities
1 | Agricultural development programmes: farmer training, non-commercial input support, organic farming promotion.
2 | Allied activities: dairy farming, animal husbandry, poultry, fisheries, sericulture, apiculture (non-commercial).
3 | Formation and strengthening of farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), cooperatives, and self-help groups (SHGs).
4 | Microfinance, microcredit, and community savings institutions for poor households.
5 | Vocational training and livelihood-linked short-term skilling programmes (non-formal) not leading to recognised educational qualifications.
6 | Promotion of rural and cottage industries such as weaving, pottery, handicrafts, and agro-processing, undertaken with non-profit and community welfare orientation.
7 | Support for socially-oriented micro, small, and medium enterprises operating on a non-profit or community-benefit basis.
8 | Women's entrepreneurship promotion: tailoring, food processing, handicrafts, small-scale manufacturing.
9 | Skill incubation centres and employability-oriented digital skilling programmes for youth (IT, coding, electronics).
10 | Infrastructure creation for livelihoods: rural haats, cold storages, community processing units.
11 | Promotion of fair-trade, ethical supply chains, and eco-friendly businesses.
12 | Encouragement of sustainable community livelihood models in eco-tourism, and homestays.
13 | Fisheries and aquaculture livelihood training for coastal and inland communities.
14 | Green economy livelihoods: solar technicians, e-waste handlers, recycling units.
15 | Job placement services, employment exchanges, and market linkages for trained youth.
16 | Food processing and value addition units.
17 | Digital literacy, financial literacy, technology access, and digital inclusion programmes for livelihood enhancement and economic inclusion of rural and marginalised communities.
18 | Livelihood support for migrant workers and vulnerable groups, including temporary shelter-linked employment opportunities.
19 | Community renewable energy enterprises (solar, biogas, micro-grids) generating local jobs.

IX. Educational:

Sl. No. | Purposes/ Activities
1 | Establishment and management of educational institutions and facilities, including early childhood education centres, schools, colleges, universities, hostels, libraries, reading rooms, and community learning centres.
2 | Scholarships, fellowships, stipends, and financial aid for disadvantaged students.
3 | Adult literacy, continuing education, and night schools for workers.
4 | Inclusive education for marginalized children and differently-abled children with Braille, sign language, and assistive technologies.
5 | Teacher training institutes, refresher courses, and academic fellowships.
6 | Establishment and running of technical, industrial, and vocational education institutions leading to recognised certification, diploma, degree, or accreditation.
7 | Research institutions, think-tanks, innovation labs, and academic chairs.
8 | Digital education platforms, smart classrooms, e-libraries, and distance learning.
9 | Girls' education initiatives: residential schools, hostels, scholarships.
10 | Education for children of migrant workers, refugees, and nomadic tribes.
11 | Bridge courses, remedial coaching, and dropout reintegration programmes.
12 | Environmental education (including climate change, biodiversity awareness etc.) programs in schools/ colleges.
13 | STEM education programmes, science clubs, and innovation fairs.
14 | Structured Sports education and training academies attached to schools/ colleges.
15 | Language teaching, translation studies, and linguistic training.
16 | Career counselling centres, mentorship programmes, and educational placement cells.
17 | Higher academic fellowships abroad in government-recognised institutions for meritorious students from disadvantaged backgrounds
18 | Value-based and ethics education in schools.
19 | Awareness programmes on constitutional rights, fundamental duties, and civic responsibilities, strictly non-political in nature.
20 | Disaster preparedness education: mock drills, safety training, and community insurance literacy.
21 | Digital inclusion initiatives: assistive technologies for differently-abled students, rural e-learning hubs.
22 | Youth leadership and civic engagement programmes.

X. Social:

Sl. No. | Purposes/ Activities
1 | Establishment and operation of hospitals, community health centres, dispensaries, mobile health clinics, ambulance services, patient transport facilities, and emergency medical response systems.
2 | Preventive healthcare: vaccination drives, health awareness camps, vector-borne disease control.
3 | Maternal and child healthcare, including maternity homes, neonatal care, nutrition supplementation, nutrition rehabilitation, and community-based management of malnutrition.
4 | Nutrition and food security programmes, including midday meals, community kitchens, feeding programmes, grain banks, ration support, and hunger-relief initiatives.
5 | Drinking water supply projects, community RO plants, and piped water schemes.
6 | Sanitation: construction of toilets, hygiene awareness, menstrual health initiatives.
7 | Orphanages, foster care, adoption support, and child protection homes.
8 | Old-age homes, day-care centres, geriatric clinics, and pensions facilitation.
9 | Disability care, including provision of assistive devices, rehabilitation services, therapy, vocational support, caregiver support, and community inclusion programmes.
10 | Rehabilitation centres for drug addicts, alcoholics, and substance abusers.
11 | Mental health counselling centres, suicide prevention helplines, and community psychiatry.
12 | Women's safety and empowerment: shelters, legal aid, self-defence training.
13 | Anti-trafficking programmes: rescue, rehabilitation, vocational reintegration.
14 | Homeless shelters, night shelters, low-cost housing, and rehabilitation facilities for homeless, destitute, abandoned, and vulnerable persons.
15 | Legal aid clinics, paralegal training, and access-to-justice programmes.
16 | Disaster relief, emergency response, and post-disaster rehabilitation relating to floods, earthquakes, cyclones, pandemics, and similar calamities.
17 | Provision of basic civic and community infrastructure such as electrification, rural roads, solar lighting, and community halls, strictly on a non-commercial, community-welfare basis.
18 | Community-based environmental protection and restoration (afforestation, biodiversity parks, mangrove projects).
19 | Water harvesting and watershed management for community welfare and drinking water security.
20 | Waste management at community level (solid waste, e-waste, plastic-free campaigns, recycling units).
21 | Road safety: awareness, trauma-care centres, first-aid training.
22 | Operation of community radio stations, helplines, and awareness platforms, subject to compliance with applicable broadcasting, telecom, and IT regulations.
23 | Rehabilitation and reintegration of released prisoners.
24 | Support to victims of domestic violence, dowry harassment, and acid attacks.
25 | Community-level sports and recreation facilities for underprivileged children and youth (non-institutional).
26 | Animal Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation
27 | Public health research: disease mapping, epidemiology, and health data systems.
28 | Palliative care and hospice services for terminally ill patients.
29 | Community blood banks, eye banks, and organ donation awareness.
30 | Pre-disaster risk reduction, mitigation, preparedness, and resilience programmes, including flood control works, cyclone shelters, early-warning dissemination, community drills, and community emergency response teams.

1. Ins. by S.O. 3272(E), dated 22nd June, 2026 (Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026).