Ex-civil servants raise doubts on PM-CARES Fund

NEW DELHI:

A group of 100 former civil servants wrote a letter to PM Modi raising questions over transparency in the PM-CARES Fund.

They said it is necessary that, for reasons of probity and adherence to standards of public accountability, the financial details of receipts and expenditures be made available in order to avoid doubts of wrongdoing. "We have been keenly following the debates about the Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations, or ' PM-CARES', – a fund created for the benefit of people affected by the COVID pandemic. Both the purpose for which it has been created as well as the way it has been administered have lef t a number of questions unanswered," they said.