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{{See also|PM CARES Fund}}

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'''Prime Minister's National Relief Fund''' ('''PMNRF''') in India is the fund raised to provide support for people affected by natural and man made disasters. Natural disasters covered under this include flood, cyclone, earthquake etc. Man made disasters include major accidents, acid attacks, riots etc. The fund is also allotted to the people for treatment like cancer, kidney transplantation, heart surgery etc. The fund was first consolidated during the time of the first prime minister of India [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/pms-funds/|title=PM National Relief Fund {{!}} Prime Minister of India|website=www.pmindia.gov.in|language=en|access-date=2018-06-06}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief,Volume 2|last=Matthew Statler|first=K Bradley Penuel|publisher=SAGE|year=2011|location=USA|pages=288}}</ref>

[[File:Prime Minister National Relief Fund.png|thumb|272x272px|Appeal by the then Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in January 1948 to help people displaced from the partition of India. The Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) was established with public contributions post this appeal]]

== History ==
Partition of British India occurred in 1947 along with the formation of two dominions called Pakistan and India.<ref name=":1" /> Partition resulted in mass violence and people were moving across borders in all means. Thus to support the displaced people from Pakistan Jawaharlal Nehru created a fund collected from the public in January 1948.

== Implementation ==
The fund is fully collected from the public and has no budgetary allocation from the government.<ref name=":0" /> The fund collected is exempted from income tax to drive more people into the initiative.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Academic Foundations Bulletin On Money, Banking And Finance Volume -73 Analysis, Reports, Policy Documents|last=Sona|first=Kapila|year=2006|location=New Delhi|pages=64}}</ref> Chairman of the fund is the Prime Minister and he is assisted by joint secretary. The whole of the fund is deposited with scheduled commercial banks and the beneficiaries are identified directly by the Prime Minister from among the beneficiaries.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/CSR-spends-to-get-cos-varying-tax-benefits/articleshow/21792947.cms|title=CSR spends to get cos varying tax benefits|last=Lubna|first=Kably|work=Times of india}}</ref>

== Impact ==
The fund was used extensively to provide support for victims of [[Uttarakhand]] flood 2013, cyclone in [[Kerala]] and [[Lakshadweep]], 2014 violence in [[Assam]], [[Madhya Pradesh]] explosion 2015, [[Tamil Nadu]] floods 2015 etc.<ref name=":0" />

== Income and expenditure ==
The income and expenditure of the PMNRF for the period 2009-10 to 2018-19 is as follows (in crore rupees):

{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Receipts
!Expenditure
!Balance
!Ref
|-
|2009-10
|185.06
|143.90
|1652.78
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_2_2009_2010_20190530105857.pdf 2009-10]
|-
|2010-11
|155.19
|182.33
|1625.64
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_3_2010_2011_20190530105857.pdf 2010-11]
|-
|2011-12
|200.79
|128.43
|1698.00
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_4_2011_2012_20190530105636.pdf 2011-12]
|-
|2012-13
|211.42
|181.62
|1727.80
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_5_2012_2013_20190530105636.pdf 2012-13]
|-
|2013-14
|577.19
|293.62
|2011.37
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_6_2013_2014_20190530105636.pdf 2013-14]
|-
|2014-15
|870.93
|372.29
|2510.02
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_7_2014_2015_20190530105636.pdf 2014-15]
|-
|2015-16
|751.74
|624.74
|2637.03
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_8_2015_2016_20190530105636.pdf 2015-16]
|-
|2016-17
|491.42
|204.49
|2923.96
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_9_2016_2017_20190530110438.pdf 2016-17]
|-
|2017-18
|486.65
|180.85
|3229.76
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_10_2017_2018_20190530110438.pdf 2017-18]
|-
|2018-19
|783.18
|212.50
|3800.44
|[https://pmnrf.gov.in/assets/uploads/downloads/RPA_2018_19_20191216.pdf 2018-19]
|}

== References ==
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[[Category:Government schemes in India]]

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Prime Minister's National Relief Fund - Revision history

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