Social Media Makes a Difference: 18 Cr Raised for Uttarakhand Relief Fund

Officials are expecting that the amount collected might be much higher than the 2010 Leh floods, which had collected 156 crore in three months. This time the facility of online payments that has been introduced is indeed a faster mode.

Already 3.57 crore has been derived from the websites pmindia.gov where 10,264 people have logged on to make their shares of contribution. An additional 7.2 crore was collected from unknown people whose numbers and identities are not available and there are no means either to track them.

It is still doubtful whether 18 crore is a huge amount to get from a country with 1.2 billion population and where some of them with considerable disposable incomes.

The officials proclaimed, "This time the government has promoted the idea of giving on social media and it has certainly made a difference," reported NDTV.

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