Gujarat Chief Minister #Narenda Modi donated 3,064 gifts worth approximately Rs.26.54-lakh to the government treasury on Wednesday (1-1-2014) .
The gifts included 103 gold and silver artifacts, roughly valued at
Rs.14.81-lakh, besides artifacts like chariot, watches, mementoes,
coins, medals, metal and wooden handicrafts, photo frames, swords, bow
and arrows, traditional and tribal attires, umbrellas. The date and
venue of the auction of these gifts would be announced shortly.
This happens to be his 13th installment of gifts Mr. Modi has been regularly donating to the treasury since November 2001.
He has earlier donated Rs.18.91-crore in the government treasury, the
amount raised through auction of 15,464 gifts he had received between
November 2001 and December 2013. This totals up to 18,710 gifts so far.
The auctions are held at different
places in Gujarat by rotation, as in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar,Surat,
Mehsana,Rajkot, Valsad, Vapi,Bhavnagar, Bharuch and Anand.
Incidentally, Mr. Modi happens to be the
only Chief Minister in India who has been regularly donating the gifts he
had been receiving for some noble cause. The sum thus raised in donated
to the fund for girls’ education, called Kanya Kelavni Nidhi.
