The Allahabad High Court on May 19 sought the response of the Central government and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in a review petition challenging the legal validity of the PM CARES Fund.
The party was responding to reports that government-run listed firms have contributed at least Rs 2,913.6 crore between 2019-20 and 2021-22 to the Fund.
Government-run firms accounted for 59.3% donations that listed entities made to a private fund run by PM Modi, as per Business Standard. The PMO had told the Delhi high court in January that PM CARES is not a “public authority”.
The Income Tax Department survey operation against the BBC India continued for the second day with the sleuths understood to be making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data of the organisation, officials said Wednesday.