9 Social media, several organisations and media continue to raise questions about the structure, accountability and transparency of the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) which is being labelled as a private trust by every government authority. Amidst all this, a query filed under Right to Information (RTI) shows that this private trust was given the .gov.in domain that is reserved for government authorities.
Responding to an appeal filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd) under the RTI Act, the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which manages the .gov.in domains, says, "...the domain pmcares.gov.in was allotted to PMO (apex body) complying with the 'guidelines for allocation of registration at the third level under .gov.in domain zone dated 23 October 2019', issued by the internet governance division, ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY)."