{"id":23855,"date":"2020-06-23T06:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2020-06-23T06:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:43:01","slug":"finance-ministry-paves-way-for-individual-contributions-to-national-disaster-response-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/finance-ministry-paves-way-for-individual-contributions-to-national-disaster-response-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance ministry paves way for individual contributions to National Disaster Response Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Narendra Modi government has finally issued guidelines to allow any person or institution to contribute directly to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) set up under the Act nearly 15 years after the Disaster Management Act was passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDRF is set up to \u201cmeet the expenses for emergency response, relief and rehabilitation\u201d in the situation of a disaster. All states have their own such funds under the Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a significant development at a time when many have expressed concerns about donations sent to the PM CARES Fund or the Prime Minister\u2019s National Relief Fund, as both claim they are not public authorities subject to questions under the Right to Information Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDRF was set up in accordance with Section 46 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Section 46(1)(b) of the Act, the government can set up the NDRF to allow the public to contribute money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Section 46 includes a clause for grants made by any person or institution, provisions for such donations had not been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narendra Modi government has finally issued guidelines to allow any person or institution to contribute directly to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) set up under the Act nearly 15 years after the Disaster Management Act was passed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The NDRF is set up to \u201cmeet the expenses for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[865],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020","tag-ministry-of-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23857,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}