No income tax on contributions to 'Bharat Ke Veer' fund to aid military families

All contributions to 'Bharat Ke Veer', a home ministry fund which aids families of paramilitary personnel who died fighting extremists, have been exempted from the income tax, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.

Singh said the home ministry had taken up the Bharat Ke Veer initiative in April last year, and the success of it has been stupendous.

Singh said the initiative has now been formalized into a registered trust for providing a platform to all citizens to contribute and provide assistance to the families of martyred paramilitary personnel.

The general public can visit the application and the website Bharat Ke Veer and make a contribution to support the families of the jawans who died in the line of duty.

The monetary contributions made on the website go straight to the bank accounts of martyred soldiers' families.

The main objective of the portal (bharatkeveer.gov.in) is to enable the public to help the families of soldiers by donating money online directly to the individual braveheart's account or to Bharat Ke Veer corpus.

Bravehearts from Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Assam Rifles, National Disaster Response Force and National Security Guards are included in the portal for contribution.