The Prime Minister Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) has allocated 2000 crores to supply 50,000 Made-in-India ventilators to government run COVID hospitals in all States and Union Territories.
Of these, 30,000 ventilators are being manufactured by the public sector company Bharat Electronic Limited. The remaining ventilators are to be manufactured by various private players that includes AgVa Healthcare (10,000), AMTZ Basic (5650), AMTZ High End (4000), and Allied Medical (350).
As of now, 2923 ventilators have been manufactured and 1340 of them have been distributed to various States and Union Territories: Maharashtra (275), Delhi (275), Gujarat (175), Bihar (100), Karnataka (90), and Rajasthan (75) among others. 14,000 more ventilators are to be delivered by the end of June.
Apart from this, the Centre has disbursed ₹1000 crore from the PM CARES fund for the welfare of non-resident workers of different states. The fund to different states was allocated based on the weightage of 3 parameters: Census 2011 (50%), number of COVID cases (40%), equal distribution (10%). The main recipients of the grants are Maharashtra (₹ 181 cr), Uttar Pradesh (₹ 103 cr), Tamil Nadu (₹ 83 cr), Gujarat (₹ 66 cr), Delhi (₹ 55 cr), West Bengal (₹ 53 cr), Bihar (₹ 51 cr), Madhya Pradesh (₹ 50 cr), Rajasthan (₹ 50 cr) and Karnataka (₹ 34 cr).
States would use this fund for arranging accommodation, food, medical, transport and other expenses for the non-resident workers belonging to different states.