The peak court likewise heard arguments on the requirement for a specific national strategy to battle natural disasters and pandemics.
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Funds can not be moved from public charitable trust to statutory fund, SC told.
It is a “misconception” that contributions received by a public trust like PM-CARES can be moved to a statutory fund like the National Catastrophe Relief Fund, the government preserved in the Supreme Court on Monday.
The federal government was reacting to a bunch of petitions, consisting of one from the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by senior supporter Dushyant Dave and supporter Prashant Bhushan, to transfer funds from PM-CARES to the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) to assist battle the pandemic.
