Scam record · 2020 · Transparency
PM CARES Fund: opacity and RTI pushback
PM CARES raised huge public donations during COVID. Repeated fights followed over whether it answers like a normal public authority under RTI.
When a fund uses the Prime Minister's name and collects from the public in a national emergency, people expect full sunlight.
PM CARES faced years of questions on audits, spending detail, and RTI. Courts and CIC processes became part of the fight. Critics called it opacity by design. Defenders called it a public charitable trust with its own rules.
This entry is about documented opacity fights, not a WhatsApp claim that money vanished without any paper trail. Read the court and CIC materials yourself.
What is proven here
Proof level: sustained RTI and court litigation over transparency. Exact spending disputes remain politically contested. Opacity itself is the documented pattern.
Sources
- PM CARES official site (Official)
- Indian Express: RTI / PM CARES coverage (News + docs)