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Mr. Hooda argued that the corpus had been created by donations largely
from the Public Sector Undertakings, Central Ministries and Departments and
even the salaries of armed forces personnel, civil servants and members of the
judicial entities have been compulsorily donated into the fund.
He contended that if the PM CARES Fund was held not to be a public
authority, it needed to be examined as to whether the public authorities at the
highest level could prompt the Government agencies, public servants to contrib-
ute to the fund.
“The victims of COVID-19 who desperately need funds to fight the dead-
ly pandemic are spread all over the country and are not in a position to enforce
their fundamental right of being treated and financially supported, by the use of
funds collected in the PM CARES Fund,” the plea said, adding that the public
who had contributed also had a right to know how the funds were being used.
[Source : The Hindu, New Delhi, dated 5-6-2020]

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