{"id":102628,"date":"2020-04-25T03:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=102628"},"modified":"2020-04-25T03:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:18:55","slug":"tawang-da-advises-donors-to-contribute-to-cmrf-pmcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/tawang-da-advises-donors-to-contribute-to-cmrf-pmcf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tawang DA advises donors to contribute to CMRF, PMCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, Apr 24:<\/strong> Several NGOs, individuals, organizations and market welfare secretaries of Tawang district are working selflessly in the fight against Covid-19, such as by providing essential services at the people&#8217;s doorsteps without charges.<br \/>\nWhile many are providing free masks, sanitizers, etc, to the needy people, many others have offered cash contributions to the district administration.<br \/>\nOn Friday, the founding director of Manjushree orphanage, Lama Thupten Phuntsok, brought a cheque for Rs 1 lakh, in addition to cheques for Rs 2 lakhs each for the chief minister&#8217;s relief fund (CMRF) and the PM Cares fund (PMCF), while Tendon Cultural Preservation Society president Lama Ngawang Norbu brought a cheque for Rs 15,000, in addition to cheques for Rs 30,000 each for the CMRF and the PMCF.<br \/>\nEarlier, on 16 April, the monks of the Tawang monastery contributed Rs 1 lakh fifty each to the CMRF and the PMCF.<br \/>\nDeputy Commissioner Sang Phuntsok, however, declined the donations meant for the district administration, saying it would be inappropriate for the administration to handle such cash, &#8220;more so when the state government is providing sufficient funds for the cause.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe DC advised the donors to either directly help the needy or do so through NGOs and other organizations.<br \/>\nThe donors therefore offered the contributions to the Tawang Monpa Employees Society (TMES). They were received by TMES chairman and ADC Lobsang Tsering.<br \/>\nThe ADC later handed over sanitizers and masks to the Tawang monastery, Manjushree orphanage, and the Tendon Society.<br \/>\nEarlier also, MLAs Tsering Tashi and Jambey Tashi had offered their two months&#8217; salaries to the administration, but the DC suggested to them to donate to the CMRF and the PMCF instead.<br \/>\nThe administration has expressed gratitude to the donors for their generosity, as well as to the frontline workers for their selfless services during the nationwide lockdown. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWANG, Apr 24: Several NGOs, individuals, organizations and market welfare secretaries of Tawang district are working selflessly in the fight against Covid-19, such as by providing essential services at the people&#8217;s doorsteps without charges. While many are providing free masks, sanitizers, etc, to the needy people, many others have offered cash contributions to the district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}