As per the desire of Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Government has set “NaMo Gujarat Karmayogi Kalyan Nidhi Trust” in order to manage funds he donated while relinquishing from the post of Gujarat Chief Minister after BJP’s thumping victory in the lok Sabha elections.
The former Gujarat Chief Minster had donated the entire amount of Rs21 lakh accrued from the salary he got during his tenure as the Chief Minister, to the State Exchequer. At that time he stated the he would like a public charitable trust be created to run the fund for the education and development activities of the girl child of Class-4 employees of Gujarat Government. His initial donation would become the corpus fund of NaMo trust.
During his tenure 13-year-old prolong tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister Modi always gave emphasis on the education of girls and also ran Save the Girl Child campaign. The NaMo trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950, would have the Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, the Chief Secretary and the secretary of the General Administration Department as its trustees and would have its office in the welfare section of the Gujarat Administration Department (GAD).
It is just a beginning, said a senior official in Gujarat Government adding that the trust would have the powers to expand its capital funds by accepting donations from outside or assistance from the Government sources but would not deviate from the basic ideology of encouraging women’s education and limit its ambit to the girl child of the poor class four employees of the State Government.
Unlike his predecessors Modi had never accepted gifts articles given to him during various functions and occasions. The State Government used to hold auctions periodically of the articles he had received as gifts as the Chief Minister and donated the entire proceed of the auctions for the education of the girls. Besides, being a single and staying alone in the official residence, Modi had almost nil personal expenses and did not appropriate the salary he received as the Chief Minister.