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PM CARES details not for your eyes -Anita Joshua

-The Telegraph

What transparency? Website does not specify contributions, spending

The Prime Minister’s Office has refused to provide copies of the trust deed of the PM CARES Fund, besides those of the government orders, notifications and circulars related to its creation, saying the fund is not a public authority and is therefore exempt from the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

“PM CARES Fund is not a public authority under the ambit of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act, 2005. However, relevant information in respect of PM CARES Fund may be seen on the website pmcares.gov.in,” the PMO said in reply to an RTI application from Azim Premji University LLM student Harsha Kandukuri.

The RTI application was filed on April 1, a few days after the fund was created to draw “voluntary” contributions towards combating the pandemic and similar crises. The PMO replied on May 30, and the reply was accessed by the legal news website Live Law.

In keeping the PM CARES Fund out of the ambit of the RTI law, the Narendra Modi government appears to have followed the example of the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) — a Nehru-era legacy. The PMNRF issue went to Delhi High Court a couple of years ago, yielding a split verdict.

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