Here is how PM CARES Fund was spent last year
Feb 8, 2022, 16:13 IST
- The government of India has spent ₹3,976 crore of the ₹10,990 crore PM Cares fund.
- The biggest expense incurred was the procurement of 6.6 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
- The Indian government had received donations worth ₹7,679 crore from within the country.
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The government of India has spent nearly a third of the total corpus raised by PM CARES (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation) Fund between April 2020 to March 2021.The government of India spent ₹3,976 crore of the ₹10,990 crore PM CARES Fund.
The biggest expense incurred during the same time frame was procurement of 6.6 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the data shared by the government of India has revealed. Procurement of Made-In-India ventilators was a close second.
| Disbursal | Expense |
| Procurement of 6.6 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines | ₹1,392 crore |
| 50,000 Made-in-India ventilators provided to state as well as central government-run hospitals | ₹1,311 crore |
| Funds allotted to state and union territories for welfare of the immigrants | ₹1,000 crore |
| Adoption of medical oxygen plants inside public health facilities | ₹201 crore |
| Establishment of two 500 bedded makeshift COVID-19 hospitals in Muzaffarpur and Patna, 16 RT-PCR testing labs in 9 states/UTs, installation and operationalisation of 162 pressure swings | ₹50 crore |
| Funding of two of the autonomous institute laboratories under department of biotechnology for upgradation as Central Drug Laboratory (CDL) for test and release of the batches of COVID-19 vaccines | ₹20 crore |
| Bank Charges | ₹1 lakh |
| Total Expenses | ₹3,976 crore |
The Indian government had received donations worth ₹7,679 crore from within the country between April 2020 to March 2021, and an additional ₹494 crore was donated by foreign contributors.
| Receipt | April ‘19 to March ‘20 | April ‘20 to March ‘21 |
| Open Balance, carried forward from previous fiscal year | N/A | ₹3,076 crore |
| Initial Corpus | ₹2.25 lakh | N/A |
| Voluntary Contribution | ₹3,075 crore | ₹7,183 crore |
| Foreign Contribution | ₹39 lakh | ₹494 crore |
| Interest Income – Regular account | ₹35 lakh | ₹224 crore |
| Interest Income – Foreign Contribution account | ₹575 | ₹10 crore |
| Refund of Unspent balance with interest from NDMA | N/A | ₹25 lakh |
| Total Receipt | ₹3076 crore | ₹10,990 crore* |
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