PM CARES Fund

As the Right To Information Act completes 18 years of its enactment, the focus once again shifts to questions of efficacy, transparency and governmental control. FORMER CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER YASHVARDHAN KUMAR SINHA, who demitted office this month, spoke to RAJSHRI RAI, editor-in-chief, APN channel, on a wide range of issues during the interaction at the India Legal Research Foundation symposium

A public interest litigation filed in the Delhi High Court has brought into focus the status of the Fund and whether it should be made accountable to public scrutiny. The centre’s legal stand leaves many questions unanswered.

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Supreme Court orally allows petitioner to withdraw plea challenging the legal validity of PM CARES Fund and approach the Allahabad High Court by way of a review petition.

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.