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BCI Chairman urges PM Modi to provide Rs 20,000 as subsistence allowance to financially weak advocates amidst Coronavirus lockdown
"It is only a handful of 10% Advocates who can survive and subsist without any earning during this time of crisis", states the letter signed off by BCI Chairman, Manan Kumar Mishra.
Bar Council of India (BCI) Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Government ministers requesting that a monthly subsistence allowance of Rs. 20,000 be allocated for young or economically weaker Advocates in view of the circumstances arising due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.