The audit report that was published in response to the RTI shows that over Rs 7,183 crore was received as “voluntary contributions”.More than Rs 494 crore was received from foreign contributors.As per the reply, while Rs 1311 crore was spent on “Made in India” ventilators for government hospitals across the country, Rs 1,000 crore was allotted to states for migrant workers’ welfare schemes.Bowring Hospital death audit report claimed that several ventilators obtained through the Fund were found faulty.It is worth recalling here that with an initial corpus of Rs 2.25 lakh, the PM CARES Fund had received Rs 3,076.62 within just five days of its formation on March 27, 2020.
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