I think you may have discovered a crack in the dam. The Indian govt starts cracking down on use of donations & a BC school is in trouble. What about the medical school & hospital and the private schools for children?

So while KP Yohannan was improperly diverting donor funds to the Engineering College for many years, Caarmel had enough funds. Is Believers Church obeying the Foreign Contribution laws for once? Is that why Caarmel is out of cash and blaming Believers Church’s financial crisis? Did KP Yohannan’s deciptions and mismanagement put the engineerings students in the position now of cheering FOR more cheating the FCRA laws just like the good ole’ days?

If you recall, GFA’s “original” four Indian FCRA entities (Gospel For Asia-renamed Ayana Charitable Trust, Believers Church-India, Last Hour, and Love India, all recently lost their authorization to receive foreign funds. The most recent FC filings GFA indicated the use of a different set of Indian shell NGO’s to receive funds in from the West (Shekina, Rehaboth, New Life, Fraternity Trust, etc). Has anybody checked their status? Have any of these entities filed an FC-4 or FC-6 lately? Are donations from the west declining? If so, how much? I seem to remember a -40% decline in GFA-Canada’s donation income per their T-3010 filings 2017 vs 2016. It wouldn’t be surprising if there has been a similar decline in USA, Australia, UK, New Zealand, etc.

Interesting that when KP was spending most of his time in the USA, the Engineering College was apparently doing fine. Now that he’s back in India most of the time, it suddenly flounders. Are parents and students in India wising up to his deceptive ways? Are they reading this blog? Are they seeing how the RICO suit is going badly for Yohannan & GFA?

These are all good questions. Money has never been a problem for KP. He has always had more than enough. It is where he spends it that is now at issue. He may still have millions sitting around but it is designated and not for Caarmel since they have never raised any money for the school. They have spent donor money for educational institutions in the past but that was then.

ITT Technical was a for profit school and so aimed to get a lot of students signed up and paying even if they weren’t capable of the schoolwork (and quite frequently the instruction wasn’t very good). At least the BC school doesn’t seem to be ‘for profit’ though how good it is is another matter. I note a large number of the assistant professors do not have PhDs. For those not in the know the top technical institutions in India are the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs); those graduating from them with good grades are in high demand for engineering graduate programs around the world.

As the case I referenced in the post suggests, Believers Church has subsidized the school in the past with foreign donations from the U.S. and around the world. These donations are under tremendous scrutiny right now and Yohannan may have told the church not to use those funds. If they can’t be used, the tuition might not cover the costs.

That might depend on whether the tuition fully covered the cost of instruction. Non-profit schools sometimes subsidize instruction costs by donations or interest from the endowment. I speculate that new schools might run at a loss for a while because of heavy startup costs and the need to establish a reputation.