Staff members of IIT Kharagpur contributes one day salary, transferred Rs 1cr to PM Cares Fund

IIT Kharagpur launched a campaign amongst its faculty and staff members to donate their one day’s salary towards this fund. The Institute has raised Rs. One crore from the faculty, staff and other sources of the Institute which has already been transferred to the PM Cares Fund.

We had proposed to contribute towards this fund and circulated a form



through which all employees of IIT Kharagpur can voluntarily donate towards this national fund through an institutional mechanism. I am glad to see people have come forward in large numbers and within a week we have been able to pledge the amount. We have communicated the same to the Ministry of Human Resources Development as well, remarked Prof. Virendra Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur.