Tribune
News Service: Chandigarh,
November 13
With
Armed Forces Flag Day being round the corner, the Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) has issued an advisory to all Central ministries and
departments directing that all government employees donate a minimum of Rs 200
out of their salaries for the month of November.
The
Flag Day fund, generated out of donations from citizens, is a major source of
funding for welfare and rehabilitation of war widows, ex-servicemen and
dependants.
The
Department of Personnel and Training advisory stems from an appeal from
the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare in this regard. December 7 is observed
as the Armed Forces Flag Day to commemorate the sacrifices of men in
uniform.
Last
year, Rs 58.84 lakh were collected, a marginal dip over Rs 59.85 lakh collected
in 2015, according to the Ministry of Defence figures. The fund has a corpus of
about Rs 290 crore and out of the interest earned on this, 7.5 per cent is
deposited back in the corpus and the remaining amount is used to fund welfare
schemes.
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