Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday launched the FCRA 2.0 portal and the electronic Overseas Citizen of India (e-OCI) card at an event in New Delhi, with Intelligence Bureau Director Mahesh Dixit present. Shah said the two digital platforms would reduce paperwork, improve citizen services and strengthen oversight of foreign contributions and OCI-related processes, aiming to monitor foreign donations in real time. He said the revamped FCRA system would simplify compliance for registered organisations and address long-pending difficulties faced by those receiving donations under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. The portal is a fully digital, end-to-end platform covering applications, renewals, annual returns and other regulatory services, and is integrated with government and institutional databases including PAN, Aadhaar, OCI, NGO Darpan and the ICAI UDIN system. It will eliminate physical submission of documents and provide e-sign-based authentication, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and NGO Darpan bank account integration. As all data will be hosted on the government cloud MeghRaj, the possibility of data theft will be greatly reduced. An FCRA mobile application, an AI-powered chatbot and a dedicated online dashboard for banks will be launched in the coming months. On the e-OCI card, Shah said it would bring great convenience to more than 50 lakh OCI cardholders. When a new passport is issued after 20 years, the OCI booklet will not need re-issue, the registration number will become unique, and cardholders can carry out real-time verification themselves. The Home Ministry said around 14,500 active FCRA organisations operate in the country.