PM CARES Fund News

Newly-nominated trustees of the PM CARES Fund - Ratan Tata, former Supreme Court judge Justice KT Thomas and former deputy Lok Sabha speaker Kariya Munda - also attended a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

The disbursal included Rs 1,000 crore for migrant welfare and over Rs 1,392 crore for procurement of Covid-19 vaccine doses.

There are currently only two vaccine testing labs in India The PMCares funds have been sanction to make more vaccine testing labs This move is to counteract future pandemics-like events

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PM Modi announced that all children who have been rendered orphan due to COVID-19 will be supported under the 'PM-CARES for Children’ scheme.

One lakh portable oxygen concentrators will be procured from PM CARES fund 500 PSA plants have also been sanctioned, said PMO The PM said that states with high case burden should be given aid

Cummins also urged fellow players who are participating in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, to come forward and donate for the same.

Uttar Pradesh will medical oxygen plants in as many as 47 of the 75 districts, including Lucknow This would be provided under the PM CARES Fund for the COVID-19 patients amid the pandemic surge

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has questioned the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM Cares Fund). She asked why should it not be audited.

Last month, the Supreme Court had refused to direct the transfer of contributions made to the PM CARES Fund to the National Disaster Response Fund Prime Minister is the ex-officio Chairman of the PM CARES Fund, while the Minister of Defence, Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Finance are its ex-officio trustees The chairperson has the power to nominate three trustees to the board of trustees, who can be eminent persons in the field of research, health, science, social work, law, public administration, and philanthropy

The hospital is made by the DRDO which has 125 ICU beds with ventilators and 375 normal beds each. Each bed also has oxygen supply. The PMO informed that, doctors and paramedical stafffor the hospital will be provided by the Armed Forces Medical Services. The 500 bed hospital at Bihta, Patna will be inaugurated today and the 500-bed hospital at Muzaffarpur will be inaugurated very soon.

Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the account of PM Cares Fund, said - Congress Misuses the Fund not us.

The PM CARE Fund was set up by the centre on March 28 to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking the transfer of money in PM CARES Funds to National Disaster Relief Fund. The SC said that fresh national disaster plan for coronavirus COVID-19 is not needed. The SC also observed that funds collected in PM CARES fund are meant for charitable trust.

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BJP president JP Nadda on Monday (August 17) called the Gandhi scion "the prince of incompetence", dubbed him a "loser" and accused him of "spreading fake news". The senior BJP leader slammed Rahul Gandhi after the latter posted a screenshot of an article that said a RTI request related to the PM CARES fund was turned down by the Prime Minister's Office. Nadda lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the "massive support" for the PM CARES fund is a testimony to this fact.

Former Congress party president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday trained his guns at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the PM-CARES Fund and said why was the latter scared of sharing details of the donations received from the Chinese firms.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High which seeks to bring the PM Cares Fund under the ambit of Right to Information Act and calls for more transparency in it.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded one-time financial assistance of Rs 10,000 each for migrant labourers from the Centre, saying “people have been facing economic hardship of unimaginable proportions because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.’’

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat has decided to contribute Rs 6 lakh to the PM CARES fund for COVID-19 over a period of one year with a monthly contribution of Rs 50,000, officials said on Sunday.