Prime Minister's Office (India) Minister is the Minister-in-charge are answered by a Minister of State nominated for the purpose or by Prime Minister himself. The Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) and the National Defence Fund (NDF) are operated directly from the PMO. The Prime Minister's National Relief Fund was established in January 1948 as Trust, by then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, with public contributions to assist displaced persons from Pakistan, due to partition of India. In the year 2013-2014, the Fund received donations worth . The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) located in South Block, overlooking the grandeur of Rashtrapati Bhawan. Though in the
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India administrative chief of the Prime Minister's Office, and as a result, wields a significant amount of power over the daily affairs of the Government of India. The main functions of the officeholder often include, but are not limited to: The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister is generally considered the latter's most crucial aide. Some principal secretaries are considered more powerful and influential than senior government ministers. List of office holders of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. A prime minister—through the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet—can also appoint an additional principal secretary. In May 2014, Pramod Kumar Misra,