{"id":104406,"date":"2021-05-03T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=104406"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:42:28","slug":"emergency-financial-powers-to-armed-forces-to-tackle-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emergency-financial-powers-to-armed-forces-to-tackle-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Emergency Financial Powers&#8221; to Armed Forces to tackle pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Union defence ministry has granted <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emergency-financial-powers-to-armed-forces-to-tackle-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency financial powers<\/a> to the country\u2019s armed forces. This is to empower their efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-box-red\">\n<h5><strong>About Emergency Financial Powers to Armed Forces:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Emergency Financial Powers <\/strong>will allow armed forces to establish and operate quarantine facilities and hospitals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Besides,<\/strong> it will also help them to operate and procure equipment and resources to perform any required urgent tasks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The armed forces <\/strong>will be able to perform all these operations without the usual clearances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Who has these powers?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vice Chiefs of the armed forces <\/strong>including the Chief Of Integrated Defence Staff, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee(CISC) and General Officer Commanding-in-Chiefs(GOC-in-Cs) have these powers. Further, similar equivalents of all three Services have been given full powers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further, Corps Commanders and Area Commanders <\/strong>have been delegated powers up to \u20b950 lakh per case<\/li>\n<li>Also, Division Commanders, Sub Area Commanders and equivalents have been delegated powers up to \u20b920 lakh per case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Duration<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>These powers <\/strong>have been devolved initially for three months from May 1 to July 31, 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>These are in addition<\/strong> to the emergency powers delegated to the medical officers of the armed forces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h5><strong>Other Organizations contribution during the pandemic:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/strong> is arranging big size oxygen cylinders for fulfilling requirements of different hospitals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Navy <\/strong>has sent a 76-member medical contingent from five Naval hospitals to the 900-bed COVID hospital in Ahmedabad. This is to bolster the availability of trained manpower.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/cantonment-board\/\"><strong>Cantonment Boards<\/strong><\/a> have extended support to civil administration in various parts of the country to fight over the increase in Covid-19 cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GAQ8HPDDF.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union defence ministry has granted emergency financial powers to the country\u2019s armed forces. This is to empower their efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic. About Emergency Financial Powers to Armed Forces: The Emergency Financial Powers will allow armed forces to establish and operate quarantine facilities and hospitals. Besides, it will also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emergency-financial-powers-to-armed-forces-to-tackle-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Emergency Financial Powers&#8221; to Armed Forces to tackle pandemic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[1429,1289],"class_list":["post-104406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-sec_3","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704837670},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}