The details of the funds received by way of voluntarily contributions through the Bharat Ke Veer portal during the last 3 years directly to the Next of Kins as well as in the corpus are as under:-
|
Years
|
Funds donated to Bharat Ke Veer
|
|
Directly to NoKs
|
BKV Corpus fund
|
|
2017
|
Rs. 11.00Cr
|
Rs. 6.40Cr
|
|
2018
|
Rs. 6.58Cr
|
Rs. 19.43Cr
|
|
2019 (up to 18th June )
|
Rs. 14.20Cr
|
Rs. 242.15Cr
|
|
Total
|
Rs. 31.78Cr
|
Rs. 267.98Cr
|
Total- Rs. 299.76 Cr
The donations were received by way of Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Online and cheques.
Funds from the corpus so far distributed to the Next of Kins of 267 personnel uploaded in the portal are as under:-
|
S.No.
|
Force
|
Fund distributed
|
|
1
|
Assam Rifles (AR)
|
Rs.1,68,66,991
|
|
2
|
Border Security Force (BSF)
|
Rs.3,29,91,832
|
|
3
|
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
|
Rs.11,10,70,987
|
|
4
|
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
|
Rs.17,75,848
|
|
|
Total
|
Rs.16,27,05,658
|
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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