An NGO is a nonprofit or a non government organization which is usually set up by ordinary citizens. The purpose of an NGO is to help the society in every way and the mankind at large. All the NGOs, including Relief India Trust rely heavily on funding for the attainment of their set goals. The funding of the NGOs is mainly done by state government, different foundations, and businesses and by private people as well. There are a lot of organizations which do not depend on the traditional funding means and rely on volunteers to attain their objectives. The broad sectors of NGOs can be the charitable organizations, social organizations and also some are working for the fulfillment of political purposes. The basic responsibility of any NGO is to work for the benefit of humanity without any discrimination of sect, caste, ethnicity and religion.

Advantages of NGOs:

There are several advantages associated with an NGO. The Relief India Trust is a renowned NGO and has the following advantages associated with it:

The Relief India Trust and many other NGOs have the liberty to experiment freely within their domain with distinct innovative methodologies. If they feel the need, then they can also freely take risk in order to achieve certain goals for the benefit of people.
The NGOs are very flexible in their approach in order to adapt themselves with local people mentality and the local situation as well. This way they can very conveniently react to the need of the local people in order to accommodate them in every possible way. This also helps them significantly to initiate integrated projects and also the sectoral projects.
The NGOs after developing a good rapport with local people can conveniently assist very poor and needy people as with the NGOs members' experience, they can identify that which individual or a group is in more need of help as compared to the others. It means that they can customize their help services in order to benefit the more needy people.
They have to approach to communicate with the top level state government officials about any matter related to the benefit of the society.
They are experienced enough to recruit experienced professionals and volunteers. They have a lot less restrictions as compared to the government recruitment process.

Disadvantages of NGO:

According to the experience and history of the Relief India Trust, following are some of the disadvantages which are associated with most of the NGOs wherever in the world they are:

Some attitude issues of the NGOs, professionals restrict the level of the NGOs participation in some programs or charitable events.
A lot of NGOs have several restrictions and constraints in order to devise a solution for a certain emergency situation.
A lot of NGOs have territorial possessiveness and they show less interest to operate in other areas which might need more help.
Most of the NGOs are dependent on outside resources for funding and doesnt really take the initiative to do something on their own.