The trustees were warmly thanked by the Prime Minister's Office for joining the PM CARES Fund as an essential component. The other trustees of the PM CAREES Fund are Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Digital Desk: Industrialist Ratan Tata has been named as one of the trustees of the PM CARES Fund. Along with former Supreme Court justice Justice K T Thomas and former Deputy Speaker Kariya Munda, the TATA Sons chairman emeritus was nominated to the trust.
The trustees were warmly thanked by the Prime Minister's Office for joining the PM CARES Fund as an essential component. The other trustees of the PM CAREES Fund are Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The statement was made a day after PM Narendra Modi presided over a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the PM CARES Fund, when a presentation on the different projects carried out with support from the PM CARES Fund was presented. At the meeting, Ratan Tata was also in attendance.
The trust also decided to propose the following distinguished individuals for the appointment to the PM CARES Fund's advisory board: Anand Shah, co-founder of Teach for India and former CEO of Indicorps and Piramal Foundation; Sudha Murthy, former chairperson of the Infosys Foundation; and Rajiv Mehrishi, former comptroller and auditor general of India.
According to PM Modi, the addition of new trustees and advisors will give the PM CARES Fund's operations a wider perspective.
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