LS staff, officers donate a day's salary in PMNRF
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday called on Modi and handed over a cheque for Rs. 14 lakhs on behalf of the officers and staff of the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the Prime Minister.
"The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan, today called on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, and handed over a cheque for Rs. 14 lakhs on behalf of the officers and staff of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, who have donated a day's salary for the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.
In pursuance of an appeal by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in January 1948, the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) was established with public contributions to assist displaced persons from Pakistan.
The resources of the PMNRF are now utilized primarily to render immediate relief to families of those killed in natural calamities like floods, cyclones and earthquakes, etc. and to the victims of the major accidents and riots.
Assistance from PMNRF is also rendered, to partially defray the expenses for medical treatment like heart surgeries, kidney transplantation, cancer treatment, among others.
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