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  • 16 regional parties declared receiving 1,026 donations without PAN details: ADR

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: About 16 regional parties have declared receiving 1,026 donations worth Rs 24.779 crore without PAN details, according to poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

    A report, prepared by ADR, focuses on donations declared by regional political parties during the financial year 2019-20, as submitted by the parties to the Election Commission of India (ECI).

    According to the report, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Lok Janshakti Party, Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) saw the maximum percentage increase in their income from donations between FY 2018-19 and 2019-20.

    “The top five parties, which declared the highest donations in FY 2019-20 are Shiv Sena, AIADMK, AAP, Biju Janata Dal and YSR-C. Out of these parties, SHS, BJD and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party declared a decrease in their donations, while the AIADMK and the AAP declared an increase in donations in comparison to FY 2018-19,” the report said.

    Maximum donations in cash were declared by the Indian Union Muslim League, which collected Rs 4.63 crore, followed by Tamil Nadu’s Pattali Makkal Katchi with Rs 52.20 lakh, LJP with Rs 6 lakh, Nagaland and Manipur’s Naga People’s Front with Rs 3.92 lakh and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) with Rs 29,000.

    The report said 16 regional parties have declared receiving 1,026 donations worth Rs 24.779 crore without PAN details.

    Out of 53 regional parties analysed, only two had submitted their donation reports to the Election Commission in the stipulated time period and 28 others had delayed their submission by a minimum of six to 320 days.

    There are 23 regional political parties who have defaulted on the submission of their donation reports to the EC during FY 2019-20, till date.

    With regard to the total amount of donations, the Shiv Sena leads with Rs 62.859 crore from 436 donations, followed by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which has declared receiving Rs 52.17 crore from three donations.

    The AAP declared receiving Rs 37.37 crore that is the third highest amongst all the regional parties.

    The BJD and the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSR-C) have declared total donations of Rs 28.20 crore and Rs 8.924 crore, respectively.

  • Teachers Association donated 01 lakh 11 thousand rupees to the district administration

    Chhattisgarh Teachers Association Kanker donated a check of Rs. 01 lakh 11 thousand 111 and 100 pieces of N-95 mask to the district administration in memory of the teachers who died of corona infection by the Chhattisgarh Teachers Association Kanker for cooperation in health testing and treatment of people infected with the novel corona virus. Which was handed over to Collector Shri Chandan Kumar in his room today.
    The Collector expressed gratitude to the teachers of the district for their work and commended the teachers for discharging various duties including fork-tracing by all the teachers. On his demand, the Collector assured transparency in posting compassionate appointment of the families of the deceased teachers and posted for posting. Prior to this, teachers of Kanker district have deposited their one day salary to the Chief Minister’s Assistance Fund through various DDOs for prevention of corona infection, along with the awareness of public to install corona vaccine in rural areas by the teachers of the district. being done. The Collector applauded the teachers of the district for their service and contract tracing in Kovid-19 duty, all the teachers doing active surveillance duty and said that all of you are discharging the responsibility for prevention of corona infection with full diligence, due to which The district of Kanker has been successful in controlling the rate of corona infection.
    On this occasion, Wajid Khan, Hemendra Daring, Swadesh Shukla, Santosh Jaiswal, Nirankar Srivastava, Vaibhav Meshram, Satyanarayana Nayak, Manish Tiwari, Gorakhnath Dhruv, Mukesh Jain, Rambhajan Netam, Anoop Purbia, Bodhan Sahu, Kishore Vishwakarma, Gokarna Pradhan, Dr. Krishnamurthy Sharma, Pradeep Kuldeep, BP Thakur, Khaman Netam, Dharmaraj Koretti, RM Rai, Rajendra Khudshyam, Domendra Sahu, Ganesh Ravani were present.

  • Donations for Ram temple: About 15,000 collected bank cheques bounce

    By PTI
    AYODHYA: About 15,000 bank cheques with a face value of Rs 22 crore, collected by the Vishva Hindu Parishad for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, have bounced.

    According to an audit report of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra, a trust set up by the Centre for the construction of the temple, said the cheques bounced due to lack of funds in bank accounts or some technical error.

    Trust member Dr Anil Mishra said banks are working to solve the issue of technical errors and they are asking people to make donations again. Among the cheques, around 2,000 were collected from Ayodhya.

    The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) had collected donations during a countrywide campaign between January 15 and February 17.

    Around Rs 5,000 crore was collected during the drive though the final figures are yet to be declared by the trust.