PM Cares Fund: PM Modi has an extended legacy of contributing to public reasons starting from woman toddler training to paintings on cleansing the Ganga to welfare of the underprivileged
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 turned into set up, officers withinside the Prime Minister's Office have said. Short for Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, the cash accrued below PM CARES is deployed withinside the combat towards the coronavirus pandemic.
"PM Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh closer to the preliminary corpus of PM CARES Fund after it turned into set up," a PMO respectable said, asking now no longer to be named.
"PM Modi has an extended legacy of contributing to public reasons starting from woman toddler training to paintings on cleansing the Ganga to welfare of the underprivileged. These donations have now passed Rs 103 crore," the respectable said.
The Congress and others events have puzzled the prison validity of PM CARES Fund and puzzled the want for it, pointing to the same Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF).
Concerns were raised over company social obligation advantages denied to contributions to country catastrophe alleviation funds. PM CARES Fund can't be audited via way of means of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
The centre has defended the PM CARES Fund, pronouncing it's miles a voluntary fund at the same time as budgetary allocations cope with different catastrophe reaction funds.
PM Modi remaining 12 months donated Rs 21 lakh from his private financial savings to a corpus fund for the welfare of sanitation employees on the Kumbh Mela held in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
After receiving the Seoul Peace Prize in South Korea, PM Modi donated the complete prize cash of Rs 1.three crore for paintings on cleansing the Ganga. He donated some other Rs three.forty crore fetched in an public sale of his mementoes to the river-cleansing mission, PMO officers said. Rs 8.35 crore raised in an public sale of items PM Modi had acquired in 2015 additionally went to the Namame Ganga Mission, the officers said.
On finishing his tenure because the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had donated Rs 21 lakh from his personal financial savings for instructing daughters of Gujarat authorities staff. He raised Rs 89.ninety six crore via way of means of auctioning all of the items he acquired at the same time as he turned into leader minister and donated this to the Kanya Kelavani Fund, which allows woman kids for his or her training.
The PM CARES Fund is exempted below the Foreign 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 firms abroad.
