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Monitor tsunami fund collection, PM tells CMs
Subhrangshu Gupta

Kolkata, Jan 5
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has asked all Chief Ministers to personally supervise and monitor the fund collection for tsunami-disaster victims and its utilisation.

Dr Manmohan Singh has written to the to the CMs, alleging that there were reports of collection of funds by some vested interests and other corrupt people who had not been sending the funds to the appropriate authorities.

The Home Ministry has also written to the Chief Secretaries to direct the police to launch a drive against the “fake fund collectors”

The ministry has also sent a list of some of the institutions and organisations which could be entitled to collect money from the public for the victims.

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