New Delhi, June 17, 2020: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agrees to hear plea on Transfer of PM-Cares Funds to NDRF and sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking a direction that all the contributions made for COVID-19 pandemic by individuals and institutions should be credited to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) rather than to the PM CARES Fund.

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah, issued notice to the Centre and sought its response within two weeks on the plea filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), which has sought a direction that all the contributions till date in the PM CARES Fund ‘may be directed to be transferred’ to the NDRF.

A Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan asked the government to respond to NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation’s petition that future contributions and grants by individuals and institutions for the COVID-19 battle should be credited to the NDRF and not the PM CARES Fund. The NDRF should be used in the fight against the virus.

The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleged that the Centre has been ‘refraining from divulging information about the specific utilization of crores of rupees that have been contributed to the PM CARES Fund till date’.

“Section 11 of the DM Act makes it mandatory for a national plan to be drawn up for disaster management for whole of the country but currently, there is no such national plan in place to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic even though the same has been notified as a ‘disaster’ and numerous notifications are being issued to contain the same under the DM Act,” the plea has said.

The petition added that the latest national plan uploaded on the website of the National Disaster Management Authority is of the year 2019 and the same doesn’t comprehensively deal with situations arising out of the current pandemic and there is no mention of measures like lockdown, containment zones, social distancing etc. in it.

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