On the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Home Ministry is on a cleanliness drive and in less than a month, has destroyed nearly 1.5 lakh files that had gathered dust for years.
While going through the steel almirahs of North Block, officials also found some interesting files which gave an insight to some historic moments.
One of these files was about the Presidential sanction given to pay India’s first Governor- General Lord Mountbatten a princely sum of Rs 64,000 as TA/DA allowance for moving back to his country.
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In today’s time, the amount will be equivalent to several crores of rupees, a Ministry official said.
Another snippet that came out was that after the former President, Rajendra Prasad, and the former Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, refused to take any pension, it was eventually sent to the government’s calamity fund. — PTI