PM CARES Fund

The Prime Minister’s Office should not have deliberately ignored the will that the Parliament had expressed in the RTI Act, and the spirit of the Rules and Office Memoranda (OM) issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in responding to RTI requests.

A plea seeking clarity on the legal status of PM CARES Fund, including whether it falls within the category of 'State' under Article 12 of the Constitution of India, periodic auditing and disclosure of donations received by it, was adjourned by the Delhi High Court, due to paucity of time

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a wife’s plea seeking release of approximately Rs 1 crore from PM Cares and State CM Relief Funds as financial assistance for getting her husband a lung transplant after having exhausted her savings over his post-Covid treatment.

The Supreme Court bench clarified that welfare schemes such as the PM CARES fund should cover both, children who became orphans during the COVID pandemic and children who became orphans due to COVID.

The number at the moment is 9,436, but this is not final. To do this, the Amicus will have to get help from the nodal officers. Other states will be taken into the picture in the second stage.

A petitioner has referred to news-clippings from the daily Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar about 55 non-functional ventilators that had been sent under PM Cares Fund from the competent authority of the central government.

An intervention application has been filed in the suo motu case on Covid-19, being heard in the Supreme Court, praying that PM Cares Fund be made a respondent in the case.

Direct state governments to set up electric and other crematoriums in all cities and also maintain and improve the condition of existing electric crematoriums.

A divisional bench of the court, comprising Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan, while hearing the matter through video conferencing, stated: “This seems to be a motivated PIL against the ICAI’s chief.”

Ever since the Fund was created, it has been beset by controversy for being non-transparent. Though this has reached the SC, the centre is in no mood to answer any questions