Modi donates Rs. 21 lakh to create a new fund for daughters of govt peons/drivers
May 23, 2014
Gandhinagar, 23 May, 2014
While leaving the Chief Minister’s office, Narendra Modi took a new initiative, details of which are now shared by the state government.
Shri Modi announced Rs. 21 lakh donation from his personal savings for welfare of daughters of drivers and peons employed by the state government.
With donation money of Rs. 21 lakh, the state government will create a corpus fund that shall be governed by a foundation, administrated by state’s Chief Minister and Chief Secretary.
In future this foundation will be able to collect more fund through public participation.
Shri Modi had in the past collected Rs. 89.96 crore fund for girl child education through auctions of gifts received by him as a Chief Minister.
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