The central government, in response to a request under the Right to Information Act (RTI) of December 24, said that the PM-CARES fund is “owned, controlled and established by the Government of India.” In its reply, the Income Tax (Exemption) Commissioner’s office said that “PM Cares Fund has been registered …
Read More »Rs 157 million from PM Cares core staff salaries; more than 93% of the railways
Written by Shyamlal Yadav | New Delhi | Updated: October 15, 2020 6:43:03 am The Prime Minister’s Fund for Assistance and Aid to Citizens in Emergencies (PM-CARES) was created in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Source: pmcares.gov.in) From the government’s largest employer, Railways to the Space Department, 50 Center departments …
Read More »From RBI and government banks to LIC, Rs 205 crore to PM Cares wages
Written by Shyamlal Yadav | New Delhi | September 28, 2020 4:35:26 am The national banking regulator, RBI, stated that its Rs 7.34 crore was for “employee contribution”. It is NOT just a wide range of central educational institutions, at least seven public sector banks, seven other leading financial and …
Read More »Behind the new rules for NGOs to raise foreign funds, a clear political message: follow the line
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill 2020, which was approved by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, must be understood in a political context. The message is loud and clear: a single narrative is being crafted in India, and any challenge to power is viewed with suspicion and crushed with brute force. …
Read More »Shashi Tharoor criticizes Anurag Thakur’s comment in parliament: with the worst possible taste
Shashi Tharoor said that today was a very unfortunate day (Archive) New Delhi: State Finance Minister Anurag Thakur’s comment against former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Gandhi family, while responding to the opposition’s attack in parliament on Prime Minister CARES’s fund, was a “political speech in the worst possible …
Read More »Lok Sabha’s impasse ends when Thakur expresses his anguish over his comments | India News
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday he expressed his distress if his comments made earlier in the day had hurt some members and after this, the Lok Sabha the procedure was resumed after repeated postponements. The lower house saw four postponements after Thakur’s comment on the Nehru-Gandhi family …
Read More »Congress of Trinamool Derek O’Brien digs into Parliament
The government needs humility to work with states to fight Covid-19, says Derek O’Brien. New Delhi: Attacking the government over the coronavirus crisis during a discussion in parliament, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien today mocked the PM-CARES fund as “I don’t care about the PM fund” and said the center …
Read More »Prime Minister Modi’s Donations from his Savings and Auction Proceeds exceed Rs 103 million | India News
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s donations of his savings and auction proceeds from the gifts he had received over the years have now topped 103 million rupees, sources said Thursday.It was revealed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh for the initial corpus of PM CARE background. …
Read More »Nothing will go into the hands of migrants, says P Chidambaram about PM-CARES
[ad_1] Coronavirus: P Chidambaram said there will be no PM-CARES money in the hands of migrant workers New Delhi: Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram said Thursday that the millions of rupees allocated by the PM-CARES Fund to migrant workers affected by the coronavirus blockade will not reach …
Read More »The PM-CARES Trust Fund allocates Rs 2,000 cr for the purchase of fans, Rs 1,000 cr for measures to help migrants
[ad_1] New Delhi: The PM-CARES Trust Fund decided on Wednesday to allocate Rs 3.1 billion rupees for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic against the COVID-19 pandemic and the amount will be used, among other things, to buy fans and care for migrant workers. The prime minister’s office said. Of …
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