“The NGOs are required to submit copious amounts of data to various regulatory authorities on a regular basis. And yet, when they want to access data in a meaningful way, there is just no information available,” says Ingrid Srinath, director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University. “We are unable to figure out exactly how many NGOs are there, where are they, what do they do, what is the size of the sector, what is the growth rate, etc. The data just doesn’t get compiled in a meaningful way.”