The PM Cares Fund changed into installation following the Covid outbreak, and had a corpus of Rs 3,076.sixty two crore on March 31, 2020, simply 4 days inside launch, of which Rs 3,075.eighty five crore had been indexed as “voluntary contributions”, in line with its reputable website.
AFTER PUBLIC zone companies, a sweeping variety of instructional institutions, from Navodaya faculties for rural college students to IITs, IIMs and important universities, have collectively contributed Rs 21.eighty one crore to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) fund — especially from group of workers salaries, RTI information accessed with the aid of using The Indian Express show.
The Prime Minister’s Office, which manages the fund, has declined to grant information of contributions received, pronouncing that PM CARES is “now no longer a public authority beneathneath the ambit of…the RTI Act”.
The fund changed into installation following the Covid outbreak, and had a corpus of Rs 3,076.sixty two crore on March 31, 2020, simply 4 days inside launch, of which Rs 3,075.eighty five crore had been indexed as “voluntary contributions”, in line with its reputable website.
On August 19, The Indian Express mentioned that 38 PSUs used their Corporate Social Responsibility price range to collectively make contributions over Rs 2,a hundred and five crore. But for numerous academic institutions (see chart), the “voluntary contributions” got here from salaries of coaching and non-coaching group of workers — and in a few cases, even from pensioners and college students.
Rs 7.forty eight crore changed into contributed with the aid of using the Navoday Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) alone, with “donation from the employees” at its headquarters and all 8 local offices. The NVS runs over six hundred Navodaya faculties in rural areas.
eleven important universities contributed Rs 3.39 crore. Among them, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) crowned with Rs 1.33 crore observed with the aid of using Banaras Hindu University (BHU) with over Rs 1.14 crore and Delhi-primarily based totally Central Sanskrit University (CSU) with Rs 27.38 lakh.
CSU’s Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) R G Murli Krishnan spoke back that whilst Rs 19.04 lakh changed into from “Sansthan contribution”, the relaxation changed into from “Adarsh contribution”, with out supplying any information. BHU stated that “no…contribution is made apart from the profits of the BHU employees.” AMU stated that the contributions got here from the salaries of its employees.
20 IITs contributed Rs 5.forty seven crore. IIT-Kharagpur crowned with over Rs 1 crore, along with Rs 36.22 lakh from “different sources”, Rs 89,184 from “pensioners”, and the relaxation from contributions with the aid of using coaching and non-coaching group of workers.
In IIT-Kanpur’s contribution of Rs forty seven.seventy one lakh, Rs 15 lakh got here from pensioners, Rs 36,800 from college students and the relaxation from group of workers. IIT-Roorkee contributed over Rs fifty nine.forty five lakh, of which Rs 4,226 got here from the Sponsored Industrial and Research Consultancy (SRIC) workplace and the relaxation from group of workers.
Kozhikode (Rs 33.fifty three lakh) crowned the listing of 10 IIMs that collectively contributed over Rs sixty six lakh. IIM-Ahmedabad contributed over Rs eleven.fifty nine lakh, observed with the aid of using IIM-Indore (Rs 6.ninety one lakh) and IIM-Kolkata (Rs 4.fifty six lakh). Apart from a contribution of Rs 25 lakh from IIM-Kozhikode’s “Corpus fund”, the relaxation got here from group of workers.
nine NITs totalled Rs 1.01 crore, with MANIT-Bhopal on pinnacle with Rs 21.seventy five lakh, observed with the aid of using NIT-Rourkela (Rs 19.36 lakh), NIT-Durgapur (Rs 13.seventy two lakh) and NIT-Calicut (Rs 12.ninety four lakh). All the contributions got here from employees.
Among the best technology institutes, IISc-Bangalore contributed Rs 25.sixty four lakh, and 7 IISERs collectively donated Rs forty five.seventy nine lakh.
From different key institutions, NCERT contributed Rs 35.22 lakh, AICTE Rs 13.eighty lakh and the UGC Rs 7.forty one lakh
