Website for donations to families of jawans killed
Centre is set to launch an exclusive website that would allow common people to make monetary donations to the families of the paramilitary troops killed in the line of duty.
The Union Home Ministry has taken into consideration a proposal made by actor Akshay Kumar in this regard some time back where he floated an idea that bonafide details of such families should be put on a public platform so that anyone could help them financially.
A blueprint prepared in this regard, accessed by PTI, said the website, that will be hosted under the Home Ministry, will have "information on martyrs and their families along with bank details so that anybody willing to extend financial support can donate money online.”
The blueprint has proposed that the upper limit of making such a public donation to a family of a trooper killed in action should not be more than Rs 15 lakh and once this ceiling is reached, the contacts of the family will automatically get “deleted” from the website.
“The families of troops killed in action already are provided monetary assistance by the government and the force they belong to.
This assistance from the public will be over and above the service compensation,” a senior officer said. The website, to be launched next week, will also carry brief details about the operation in which the trooper was killed, his age and address of his native village, name of the next-of-kin as provided in service records and complete details of bank account of the family.