Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has donated an amount of Rs 1 crore to the PM Cares Fund to help fight the outbreak of Corona Virus (COVID-19) epidemic, the IIT raised funds last week through faculty, non-teaching staff.

The worldwide corona virus epidemic remains a serious threat to the health, life and economic security of any country. At present, more than 5700 people are infected with this virus in India, while the number of people who have died has been more than 165.

Let us tell you that all the teachers have decided to give one day salary in PM Cares Fund. IIT Kharagpur director Virendra Tiwari said, "All the employees have voluntarily donated for this national fund, I am happy to see that people have come forward in large numbers and within a week we were able to accumulate such a large amount." We have also informed the Ministry of Human Resource Development about this on Wednesday ".

Many educational institutions have appeared in the PM Cares Fund, it should be noted that it was decided to give one day's salary of regular teaching and non-teaching staff of JNU to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund.

At the same time, CBSE had also issued a notice to give 21 lakhs to support the efforts of the government to deal with the corona virus. At the same time, in view of the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the circumstances of the country, Kendriya Vidyalaya employees have donated an amount of 10,40,60,536 in PM Cares.