Naidu donates one month’s salary to Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund

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New Delhi : The Vice President of India and Chairman Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu on March 27, 2020, contributed a sum equivalent to a month’s salary to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to strengthen the government’s efforts in combating COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, the Vice President described COVID-19 as a calamity of extremely severe nature which has claimed a heavy toll of life across the globe. He said that India is fighting the pandemic by taking timely and emergent measures from time to time under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is my small contribution to the cause, Naidu said, according to a PIB release.