He lamented that some international agencies funding NGOs have used them for serving their own agenda, including carrying out conversions and promoting Naxal violence.
"There are many kinds of people. Those in the corporate world and politics have also started NGOs to meet their ends. They have been used even for carrying out conversions. NGOs are becoming a money-minting machine in the name of poverty. They all have their own agendas," he told 'Panchjanya' in an interview.
"No one should be lured to convert with money or other benefits. I am against such conversions," he told the publication run by RSS sympathisers.
Satyarthi also accused such organisations of dividing the NGO community and creating a rift between them in the country by luring some with donations and foreign travels.
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"When people started getting foreign donations and government funding, then people set up such organisations to gain. Now even 'socialites' and 'fashionable civil society' have come up. I have seen such people who have made a business out of social reform and social welfare.
"In the last two decades, a section of NGOs have found a way to make a career for themselves instead of initiating social reform. People think NGOs are a means to make money and make their careers. I have seen those donating to such NGOs also have their own agenda," he told the publication.
He said he only came to know of such instances after they raised the issues and later found that they were funded by such agencies which had vested interests.
Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, for working towards freeing children from being employed in labour work through his 'Bachpan Bachao Aandolan'. He had shared the award with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.