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KSSP denies charges

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 18. The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) has termed ridiculous the charge that it had accepted foreign funds for its research projects.

In a statement here today, the KSSP president, K. Papputty, and the general secretary, N. K. Sasidharan Pillai, said the firm position of the KSSP and its research arm, IRTC, was that they should not accept foreign funding for organisational work or research projects. Given this position, neither had taken the FCRA licence needed to accept foreign funds and the names of neither figured in the list of foreign fund-receiving organisations published annually by the Government, they pointed out.

The KSSP leaders said the contention that all those who took up projects as part of the Dutch-assisted Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development (KRPLLD) of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) were guilty of having accepted foreign funds would not stand the scrutiny of law or logic. If that were so, all those who had worked in the Indo-Swiss Project, hundreds of foreign-funded projects taken up over the years, the Government employees who take salaries out of loans taken from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and even the State pensioners would have to be accused of taking foreign funds. This was ridiculous, to say the least, they said. Prof. Papputty and Mr. Pillai pointed out that though assistance for the Kerala Research Programme had come from the Dutch Government, there was no string attached to it.

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