New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) A whopping Rs 26 crore has beencontributed to a Union Home Ministry fund which helps familiesof paramilitary personnel who laid down their lives fightingextremists, an official said.
A total of Rs 25,82,18,888 has been donated to the'Bharat Ke Veer' fund which was launched by Home MinisterRajnath Singh in April.
General public can visit the app and the website'BharatKeVeer' and make a contribution to support the familiesof jawans who died in the line of duty, the home ministryofficial said.
The monetary contributions made on the website gostraight into the bank account of martyred soldier's family.
The main objective of the portal (bharatkeveer.gov.in) isto enable the public to help the families by donating moneyonline directly to the individual braveheart's account or to'Bharat Ke Veer' corpus.
Bravehearts from the following armed forces are among themajor forces included in the portal for the contribution. Theyare: Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial SecurityForce (CISF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP), Assam Rifles (AR),National Disaster Response Force (NDRF-India), NationalSecurity Guards (NSG) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). PTI ACBAAR.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.