The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has consistently refused to divulge any information about the PM-CARES (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations) Fund’s spendings, citing that it is not a “public authority” under the Right to Information Act, 2005. However, file notings accessed by RTI activists show that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) had declared that the fund was set up by the Central government on the day the fund was created, thus making it a public authority under the ambit of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act, 2005.