Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Grants Emergency Financial Powers To Armed Forces To Fight Covid-19 Surge
by Swarajya Staff - May 1, 2021 03:04 AM
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (Pic Via Twitter)
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday (30 April) invoked special provisions and granted Emergency Financial Powers to the Armed Forces to empower them and speed up their efforts in tide over the current COVID-19 situation in the country.
These powers will help Formation Commanders to establish and operate quarantine facilities, hospitals and undertake procurement, repair of equipment, items, material, stores, besides provisioning of various services and works required to support the ongoing effort against the pandemic, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.
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Rajnath Singh grants Emergency Financial Powers to Armed Forces to fight COVID-19 in India
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday granted Emergency Financial Powers to the Armed Forces to ramp up efforts to fight COVID-19 in India.
The official handle of the Defence Minister s office tweeted, To empower the Armed Forces and speed up their efforts in the nationwide fight against COVID 19 situation, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh invoked special provisions and granted Emergency Financial Powers to the Armed Forces today. These powers will help Formation Commanders to establish and operate quarantine facilities/ hospitals and to undertake procurement/ repair of eqpt/ items/ material/ stores, besides provisioning of various services and works required to support the ongoing effort against COVID, it added.
Defence Ministry invokes special provisions to fight Covid surge
April 30, 2021
Grants emergency financial powers to the Armed Forces
The Ministry of Defence (MoD), on Friday, has invoked special provisions and granted Emergency Financial Powers to Armed Forces to fight the Covid-19 surge. This will empower them and speed up their efforts to tide over the current situation in the country, it said in a statement.
Under these powers, the Vice Chiefs of Armed Forces, including Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC), and General Officer Commanding-in-Chiefs (GOC-in-Cs) and equivalents of all three services, have been given full powers, whereas Corps Commanders/Area Commanders have been delegated powers up to ₹50 lakh per case, and Division Commanders/Sub Area Commanders and equivalents have been delegated powers up to ₹20 lakh per case.
India's armed forces were today granted emergency financial powers to augment their efforts in the battle against COVID-19, the second wave of which has brought devastation on the country in the past few weeks.