PM CARES Fund is deployed within the struggle towards the coronavirus pandemic
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh from his personal pocket because the “preliminary corpus” to the PM CARES Fund simply after it was arrange, officers within the Prime Minister’s Workplace have mentioned. Brief for Prime Minister’s Citizen Help and Aid in Emergency Conditions Fund, the cash collected below PM CARES is deployed within the struggle towards the coronavirus pandemic.
“PM Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh in the direction of the preliminary corpus of PM CARES Fund after it was arrange,” a PMO official mentioned, asking to not be named.
“PM Modi has a protracted legacy of contributing to public causes starting from woman baby training to work on cleansing the Ganga to welfare of the underprivileged. These donations have now exceeded Rs 103 crore,” the official mentioned.
The Congress and others events have questioned the authorized validity of PM CARES Fund and questioned the necessity for it, pointing to the same Prime Minister’s Nationwide Aid Fund (PMNRF).
Issues have been raised over company social accountability advantages denied to contributions to state catastrophe aid funds. PM CARES Fund can’t be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor Normal of India.
The centre has defended the PM CARES Fund, saying it’s a voluntary fund whereas budgetary allocations maintain different catastrophe response funds.
PM Modi final yr donated Rs 21 lakh from his private financial savings to a corpus fund for the welfare of sanitation staff on the Kumbh Mela held in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj.
After receiving the Seoul Peace Prize in South Korea, PM Modi donated the whole prize cash of Rs 1.Three crore for work on cleansing the Ganga. He donated one other Rs 3.40 crore fetched in an public sale of his mementoes to the river-cleaning mission, PMO officers mentioned. Rs 8.35 crore raised in an public sale of items PM Modi had obtained in 2015 additionally went to the Namame Ganga Mission, the officers mentioned.
On finishing his tenure because the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had donated Rs 21 lakh from his personal financial savings for educating daughters of Gujarat authorities workers. He raised Rs 89.96 crore by auctioning all of the items he obtained whereas he was chief minister and donated this to the Kanya Kelavani Fund, which helps woman kids for his or her training.
The PM CARES Fund is exempted below the Overseas Contribution (Regulation) Act and a separate account for receiving overseas donations has been opened. This allows PM CARES Fund to simply accept donations and contributions from people and organisations overseas.
“That is per respect to Prime Minister’s Nationwide Aid Fund (PMNRF). PMNRF has additionally obtained overseas contributions as a public belief since 2011,” the federal government says on the PM CARES Fund web site.
