New Delhi: The Supreme Court, on Tuesday ruled that the money from the PM CARES Fund cannot be deposited or transferred to the National Disaster Relief Fund, while clarifying that the Centre will be free to transfer funds to NDRF as it deems appropriate.
Disposing the petition in this regard, the Apex Court said that there was no need for fresh national diaster relief plan for the pandemic.
The PM Cares Fund was set up by Prime Minister’s Office in March, in wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The court was hearing a bunch of petitions, including one from the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, represented by senior advocate Dushyant Dave and advocate Prashant Bhushan, to transfer funds from PM CARES to the National Disaster Relief Fund to help tackle the coronavirus crisis.
The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy, and MR Shah also said that no institutions and individual can be prohibited to make contributions to the PM CARES Fund.
