PM-CARES Fund: Dalai Lama Extends Support To Indian Government For Coronavirus Fight

Dharamsala (HP): The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has extended support to the Indian government for its effort for Coronavirus fight. The spiritual leader also has donated from his trust to the PM-CARES Fund, created to enable people to contribute to the government’s containment and relief measures against the COVID-19 outbreak. His staff members too […]

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Dharamsala (HP): The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has extended support to the Indian government for its effort for Coronavirus fight. The spiritual leader also has donated from his trust to the PM-CARES Fund, created to enable people to contribute to the government's containment and relief measures against the COVID-19 outbreak. His staff members too donated a day's salary to the corpus, according to the Dalai Lama's office.

The Spiritual leader has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing his support to the measures being taken by India, within the country, and among SAARC nations, to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. He said the fund will provide urgently needed assistance to the people facing hardships due to an ongoing nationwide lockdown imposed to combat the virus.