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1Rahul</span>, founder and editor · 19 August 2026</p><h1 class="mt-5 max-w-4xl font-display text-[2.35rem] leading-[1.08] font-medium tracking-tight md:text-6xl">₹14,767 crore in donations. ₹8,452 crore still in the bank.</h1><p class="mt-6 max-w-2xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-ink-soft md:text-xl">On the face of the six signed accounts, PM CARES took in<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹14,766.98 cr</strong> <!-- -->in donations and<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹1,178.56 cr</strong> <!-- -->in interest. Cash paid out was<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹8,148.33 cr</strong>. Agencies later sent back <!-- -->₹654.86 cr<!-- -->. On 31 March 2025 the closing balance was<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹8,452.07 cr</strong>— <!-- -->₹7,846.65 cr<!-- --> in fixed deposits.</p><p class="mt-5 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">FY 2024–25 is not a ₹3.31-crore spending year. The PDF shows<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹87.85 lakh</strong> in payments — 0.01% of the closing pile. The extra ₹2.43 crore is money returned to donors, not relief.<!-- --> <a href="#years" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">Year by year, as printed</a>.<!-- --> <a href="#demand" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">Five demands of the chair</a>.</p></div></section><section aria-label="Photograph" class="border-b border-rule"><figure class="mx-auto max-w-6xl"><img src="/photos/modi-pmcares.jpg" alt="Narendra Modi, chair of the PM CARES Fund, with the fund’s official mark." class="aspect-[16/8] w-full object-cover object-[center_18%] outline outline-1 -outline-offset-1 outline-ink/10 md:aspect-[2/1]"/><figcaption class="flex flex-col gap-1 px-4 py-4 md:flex-row md:items-baseline md:gap-6 md:px-6"><span class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live uppercase">Photograph</span><p class="max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Narendra Modi, ex-officio chairman of PM CARES. The fund uses his office, the State Emblem, and a gov.in domain. The appeal of 28 March 2020 was made in this name. Photo: India Today, August 2026.</p></figcaption></figure></section><section id="numbers" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto grid max-w-6xl gap-px bg-rule md:grid-cols-3"><article class="bg-paper px-4 py-8 md:px-8 md:py-10"><div class="mb-4 h-1 w-10 bg-in"></div><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">Donations, as printed</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-4xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">₹14,767 cr</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">₹1,47,66,98,13,169 · interest is another ₹1,178.56 cr</p><p class="mt-4 max-w-sm text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Sum of the donation lines on the six receipts faces (net of donor refunds in FY24–FY25). Do not call this “₹15,946 crore in donations” — that figure folds in interest. Agency refunds are a third column, not a donation.</p></article><article class="bg-paper px-4 py-8 md:px-8 md:py-10"><div class="mb-4 h-1 w-10 bg-out"></div><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">Paid out</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-4xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">₹8,148 cr</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">net of agency refunds ₹7,490.24 cr</p><p class="mt-4 max-w-sm text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Total Payments on the six accounts. Donor refunds are a payment in FY22–FY23 and are netted against donations in FY24–FY25. They are not relief spending.</p></article><article class="bg-paper px-4 py-8 md:px-8 md:py-10"><div class="mb-4 h-1 w-10 bg-hold"></div><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">Still in the bank</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-4xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">₹8,452 cr</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">57.2% of donations · ₹7,846.65 cr in FDs</p><p class="mt-4 max-w-sm text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">31 March 2025. ₹7,846.65 crore in fixed deposits; ₹605.41 crore in savings. Interest that year, ₹475.28 crore, almost matched fresh domestic donations. Programme spend was ₹87.85 lakh — 0.01% of this pile.</p></article></div></section><section class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto grid max-w-6xl gap-10 px-4 py-12 md:grid-cols-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><div class="md:col-span-4"><h2 class="font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">
1What this fund is — and is not</h2></div><div class="space-y-4 text-[15px] leading-relaxed text-ink-soft md:col-span-8"><p>The Prime Minister&#x27;s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund is a public charitable trust set up on 27 March 2020. The Prime Minister is the ex-officio chair. It is<!-- --> <em class="text-ink">not</em> a line in the Union Budget, and it is not paid for by a parliamentary appropriation from the Consolidated Fund of India.</p><p>So when these accounts say money was “spent”, they mean the trust disbursed donated money — from individuals, companies and public-sector undertakings — plus the interest that money later earned in the bank. The receipts-and-payments accounts do not name donors, so we cannot split “PSU money” from “private money”. We can only split what the auditor split: domestic donations, foreign donations, and interest.</p><p>Foreign contributions are real, but small after the first full year: ₹494.92 crore in FY21, then a trickle. Interest is not small. By FY25, interest on the fixed deposits alone (₹469.38 crore) almost matched the entire year&#x27;s domestic donations.</p></div></div></section><section id="years" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><div class="flex flex-col gap-3 md:flex-row md:items-end md:justify-between"><div><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">01 — Year by year</p><h2 class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">In, out, and the pile that stayed.</h2></div><p class="max-w-md text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">Bars are donations-plus-interest and the PDF payments total, in crore. The line is the closing balance. After FY22 the fund takes in more than it spends, every year. Agency refunds are a third column — not “came in”, not “spent”.</p></div><div class="mt-8 rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-3 shadow-sheet md:p-6"><p class="mb-2 px-1 font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">₹ crore · bars = donations + interest / payments · line = closing</p><div class="h-64 w-full md:h-80"><div class="recharts-responsive-container" style="width:100%;height:100%;min-width:0"></div></div></div><div class="mt-8 overflow-x-auto"><table class="w-full min-w-[720px] border-collapse text-sm"><thead><tr class="border-b border-ink text-left font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-mute uppercase"><th class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Year</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Donations</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Interest</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Agency refunds</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Payments</th><th class="py-3 text-right font-medium">Closing</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">2019–20</span><span class="ml-2 font-mono text-[10px] tracking-wider text-mute uppercase">stub</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹3,076.27 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.35 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.02 lakh</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹3,076.63 cr</td></tr><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60 bg-chip"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">2020–21</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹7,678.69 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹234.6 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹0.25 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹3,976.17 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹7,014 cr</td></tr><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">2021–22</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,936.88 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹160.26 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹20.81 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹3,716.29 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹5,415.66 cr</td></tr><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">2022–23</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹912.21 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹170.38 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹224.83 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹439.38 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹6,283.68 cr</td></tr><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">
12023–24</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹682.95 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹137.69 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹84.31 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹15.6 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹7,173.03 cr</td></tr><tr class="cursor-pointer border-b border-rule transition-colors hover:bg-chip/60"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><span class="font-medium">2024–25</span></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹479.98 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹475.28 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹324.66 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.88 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹8,452.07 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-t border-ink font-medium"><td class="py-3 pr-3">Six-year total</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹14,766.98 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,178.56 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹654.86 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹8,148.33 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹8,452.07 cr</td></tr></tbody></table></div><aside class="mt-6 max-w-3xl rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel px-5 py-4 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.14em] text-live uppercase">How to read the two donation totals</p><p class="mt-2"><strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹14,766.98 cr</strong> <!-- -->is the sum of the donation lines as printed — and matches Deccan Herald’s ₹14,766.95 crore.<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹14,771.04 cr</strong> is the same series with donor refunds added back so FY20–FY23 (gross on the face) and FY24–FY25 (net on the face) can be compared. Neither figure includes interest. Adding interest (<!-- -->₹1,178.56 cr<!-- -->) gives about <!-- -->₹15,945.54 cr<!-- --> <!-- -->of donations-plus-interest. Saying the fund “took in ₹15,946 crore in donations” without mentioning interest overstates donations. Agency refunds (<!-- -->₹654.86 cr<!-- -->) are money coming home, not a second gift.</p></aside><article class="mt-8 grid gap-8 rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 md:grid-cols-12 md:p-8"><div class="md:col-span-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2021</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">2020–21</h3><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The COVID year. Largest inflow and the first large disbursals: ventilators, migrant welfare, vaccines, oxygen plants.</p><p class="mt-4 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">Audited by <!-- -->SARC &amp; Associates<!-- --> · signed <!-- -->11 January 2022</p></div><div class="md:col-span-7"><dl class="grid grid-cols-2 gap-x-6 gap-y-3 text-sm"><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Opening</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹3,076.63 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Domestic donations</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹7,183.78 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Foreign donations</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹494.92 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Interest</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹234.6 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Donations + interest</dt><dd class="tabular-nums font-medium text-ink">₹7,913.3 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Agency refunds in</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹0.25 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Payments (PDF total)</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹3,976.17 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Donor refunds (shown as a payment)</dt><dd class="tabular-nums text-ink-soft">₹0 cr</dd></div><div class="flex flex-col border-b border-rule/70 py-1.5"><dt class="font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">
1Closing</dt><dd class="tabular-nums font-medium text-ink">₹7,014 cr</dd></div></dl><ul class="mt-6 space-y-1.5 border-t border-rule pt-4 text-sm"><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">Vaccine doses</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹1,392.83 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">Ventilators</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹1,311.34 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">Migrant welfare</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹1,000 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">162 PSA plants</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹201.58 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">Bihar hospitals &amp; RT-PCR</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹50 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4"><span class="text-ink-soft">CDL labs</span><span class="shrink-0 tabular-nums">₹20.42 cr</span></li><li class="flex justify-between gap-4 text-mute"><span>Admin</span><span class="tabular-nums">₹0.01 cr</span></li></ul></div></article></div></section><section id="sources" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">02 — Source of funds</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-3xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">Almost nine rupees in ten were domestic donations.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The accounts have three incoming pipes: voluntary contributions from inside India (plus a ₹2.25 lakh initial corpus), foreign contributions, and bank interest. They do not say who the donors were.</p><div class="mt-8 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-3"><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-5"><p class="text-sm text-ink-soft">Domestic donations + corpus</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹14,226.91 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">89.2%<!-- --> of new money</p><div class="mt-4 h-1.5 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-chip"><div class="h-full bg-ink" style="width:89.22186742122763%"></div></div></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-5"><p class="text-sm text-ink-soft">Foreign donations</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹540.07 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">3.4%<!-- --> of new money</p><div class="mt-4 h-1.5 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-chip"><div class="h-full bg-ink" style="width:3.3869720196923394%"></div></div></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-5"><p class="text-sm text-ink-soft">Interest (incl. TDS refund)</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹1,178.56 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">7.4%<!-- --> of new money</p><div class="mt-4 h-1.5 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-chip"><div class="h-full bg-ink" style="width:7.391160559080028%"></div></div></article></div><div class="mt-8 rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-3 shadow-sheet md:p-6"><p class="mb-2 px-1 font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">₹ crore · stacked by source</p><div class="h-64 w-full md:h-72"><div class="recharts-responsive-container" style="width:100%;height:100%;min-width:0"></div></div></div><div class="mt-8 overflow-x-auto"><table class="w-full min-w-[640px] border-collapse text-sm"><thead><tr class="border-b border-ink text-left font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-mute uppercase"><th class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Year</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Domestic</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Foreign</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Interest</th><th class="py-3 text-right font-medium">Donations + interest</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2019–20</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹3,075.88 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.40 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.35 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹3,076.63 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2020–21</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹7,183.78 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹494.92 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹234.6 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹7,913.3 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2021–22</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,896.76 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹40.12 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹160.26 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹2,097.14 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2022–23</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹909.64 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹2.57 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹170.38 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹1,082.59 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2023–24</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹681.81 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1.14 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹137.69 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹820.64 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">2024–25</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹479.05 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹0.93 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹475.28 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹955.25 cr</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="mt-6 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">FY21 is the foreign-money year: ₹494.92 crore, 6.3% of that year&#x27;s intake. After that, foreign inflows collapse to a few crore a year. Interest does the opposite — it grows as the unspent corpus grows, and explodes in FY25 once most of the money is in fixed deposits. FY24 and FY25 print donations net of money returned to donors (₹1.62 crore and ₹2.43 crore). Those two years now follow the PDF face, not a grossed-up cash figure.</p></div></section><section id="spent" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">03 — What the money was spent on</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-3xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">Oxygen, vaccines, migrants — then almost nothing.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Gross disbursals to programmes were <!-- -->₹8,144.61 cr<!-- -->. Implementing agencies later sent back <!-- -->₹654.86 cr<!-- --> <!-- -->of unspent money (<!-- -->₹245.64 cr<!-- --> tagged to a named line; <!-- -->₹409.22 cr<!-- --> lumped as “refund from implementing agencies” in FY24–FY25). Net programme spend:<!-- --> <!-- -->₹7,489.75 cr<!-- -->.</p><div class="mt-8 grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-5"><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-4"><p class="text-xs leading-snug text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">₹5,155 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[10px] text-mute">net <!-- -->₹4,921.95 cr</p></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-4"><p class="text-xs leading-snug text-mute">Vaccines &amp; labs</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">₹1,413 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[10px] text-mute">net <!-- -->₹1,412.9 cr</p></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-4"><p class="text-xs leading-snug text-mute">Hospitals</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">₹214 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[10px] text-mute">net <!-- -->₹201.86 cr</p></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-4"><p class="text-xs leading-snug text-mute">Welfare</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">₹1,000 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[10px] text-mute">net <!-- -->₹1,000 cr</p></article><article class="rounded-md border border-rule bg-panel p-4"><p class="text-xs leading-snug text-mute">Children</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">₹362 cr</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[10px] text-mute">net <!-- -->₹362.25 cr</p></article></div><div class="mt-8 rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-3 shadow-sheet md:p-6"><p class="mb-2 px-1 font-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.14em] text-mute uppercase">Gross bars · pale end-cap is money later refunded</p><div class="h-[420px] w-full md:h-[480px]"><div class="recharts-responsive-container" style="width:100%;height:100%;min-width:0"></div></div></div><div class="mt-8 overflow-x-auto"><table class="w-full min-w-[700px] border-collapse text-sm"><thead><tr class="border-b border-ink text-left font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-mute uppercase"><th class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Programme</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Group</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Gross paid</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Refunded</th><th class="py-3 text-right font-medium">Net</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">50,000 Made-in-India ventilators</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Supplied to government hospitals run by the Centre, states and Union territories. Paid across FY21 and FY22. Implementing agencies later returned ₹202.89 crore of unspent money.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹2,146.62 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹202.89 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹1,943.74 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Additional dedicated PSA oxygen plants</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">The single largest payment line in any year: ₹1,703.15 crore in FY22, after the second-wave oxygen crisis. Small unspent refunds followed.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,703.15 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹4.67 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹1,698.48 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">6.6 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Procured in FY21. A ₹0.34 crore unspent balance was later refunded.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Vaccines &amp; labs</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,392.83 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹0.34 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹1,392.49 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Migrant welfare — allotted to states &amp; UTs</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">₹1,000 crore sent to states and Union territories in FY21 for the welfare of migrant workers during the first lockdown.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Welfare</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹1,000 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹1,000 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">99,986 oxygen concentrators</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">₹500 crore in FY22 and a further ₹91.87 crore in FY23.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹591.87 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹591.87 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">PM CARES for Children</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Scheme for children who lost both parents or a surviving parent / legal guardian to COVID-19. A ₹10 lakh fixed deposit is held until age 18, with education and health cover. Almost all of the money went out in FY23; later years are small top-ups.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Children</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹362.25 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹362.25 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">1.5 lakh SpO2 oxygen-control systems + 10 lakh NRMs</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Pulse-oximetry-based oxygen control systems with non-rebreather masks, plus 10 lakh extra masks.
1</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹322.5 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹1.76 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹320.74 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">162 PSA medical oxygen plants</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">First oxygen-plant package, installed inside public health facilities in FY21.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹201.58 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹23.86 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹177.73 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Liquid oxygen equipment (IOCL / MoPNG)</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Procured by Indian Oil through the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Oxygen &amp; critical care</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹189.4 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹189.4 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Two 500-bed makeshift hospitals — Jammu &amp; Srinagar</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">One 500-bed COVID hospital in each city, FY22.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Hospitals</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹82.94 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹82.94 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel COVID hospital, Delhi Cantt.</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Reactivation of the 500-ICU-bed DRDO hospital at Delhi Cantonment.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Hospitals</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹67.95 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹67.95 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Makeshift hospitals in Muzaffarpur &amp; Patna + 16 RT-PCR labs</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Two 500-bed hospitals and 16 testing labs across 9 states/UTs. A large share of the original ₹50 crore later came back unspent.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Hospitals</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹50 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">₹12.13 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹37.87 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Two DBT labs upgraded as Central Drug Laboratories</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Autonomous institute laboratories under the Department of Biotechnology, upgraded to test and release COVID-19 vaccine batches.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Vaccines &amp; labs</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹20.42 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹20.42 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule align-top"><td class="py-3 pr-3"><p class="font-medium">Atal Bihari Vajpayee COVID hospital, Lucknow (DRDO)</p><p class="mt-1 max-w-md text-xs leading-relaxed text-mute">Makeshift 500-bed hospital built by DRDO.</p></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Hospitals</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹13.1 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums text-mute">—</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹13.1 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Unallocated agency refunds</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-xs text-mute">Returned, line not named</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">—</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹409.22 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums">−<!-- -->₹409.22 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-t border-ink font-medium"><td class="py-3 pr-3">All programmes</td><td class="py-3 pr-3"></td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹8,144.61 cr</td><td class="py-3 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹654.86 cr</td><td class="py-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹7,489.75 cr</td></tr></tbody></table></div><aside class="mt-8 max-w-3xl border-l-2 border-ink pl-4 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Admin across six years is <!-- -->₹0.49 cr<!-- --> — bank charges, SMS charges, ₹24,000 of legal consultancy, and ₹2,049 of service tax on a forex conversion in the first week. Donor refunds total<!-- --> <!-- -->₹7.29 cr<!-- -->.</aside></div></section><section id="remains" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">04 — What remains</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-3xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">The fund is now mostly a fixed-deposit book.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">In FY24 the trustees moved <!-- -->₹6,641.57 cr<!-- --> into fixed deposits. A year later that pile is <!-- -->₹7,846.65 cr<!-- -->, and it earned <!-- -->₹475.28 cr<!-- --> — more than the year&#x27;s foreign donations, and nearly as much as all domestic donations (<!-- -->₹479.98 cr<!-- -->).</p><div class="mt-8 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-2"><article class="rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">31 March 2025</p><p class="mt-3 font-display text-4xl tracking-tight">₹8,452.07 cr</p><div class="mt-6 space-y-3"><div><div class="mb-1 flex justify-between text-sm"><span class="text-ink-soft">Fixed deposits</span><span class="tabular-nums">₹7,846.65 cr</span></div><div class="h-2 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-chip"><div class="h-full bg-hold" style="width:92.83708854685472%"></div></div></div><div><div class="mb-1 flex justify-between text-sm"><span class="text-ink-soft">Savings accounts</span><span class="tabular-nums">₹605.41 cr</span></div><div class="h-2 overflow-hidden rounded-full bg-chip"><div class="h-full bg-hold/50" style="width:7.162911453145282%"></div></div></div></div></article><article class="rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">FY25 run-rate</p><dl class="mt-4 space-y-3 text-sm"><div class="flex justify-between gap-4 border-b border-rule pb-2"><dt class="text-ink-soft">Programme spend</dt><dd class="tabular-nums font-medium">₹0.88 cr</dd></div><div class="flex justify-between gap-4 border-b border-rule pb-2"><dt class="text-ink-soft">Bank charges</dt><dd class="tabular-nums">₹451</dd></div><div class="flex justify-between gap-4 border-b border-rule pb-2"><dt class="text-ink-soft">Interest earned</dt><dd class="tabular-nums font-medium">₹475.28 cr</dd></div><div class="flex justify-between gap-4"><dt class="text-ink-soft">Spend as % of closing pile</dt><dd class="tabular-nums">0.010%</dd></div></dl><p class="mt-5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">After the pandemic years the trust is collecting interest and refunds, not deploying a COVID-scale programme. The only named spend left is PM CARES for Children.</p></article></div><div class="mt-8 overflow-x-auto"><table class="w-full min-w-[520px] border-collapse text-sm"><thead><tr class="border-b border-ink text-left font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-mute uppercase"><th class="py-3 pr-3 font-medium">Year-end</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Savings</th><th class="py-3 pr-3 text-right font-medium">Fixed deposits</th><th class="py-3 text-right font-medium">Total held</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2020</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹3,076.63 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">—</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹3,076.63 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2021</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹7,014 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">—</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹7,014 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2022</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹5,415.66 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">—</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹5,415.66 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2023</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹6,283.68 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">—</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹6,283.68 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2024</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹531.47 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹6,641.57 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹7,173.03 cr</td></tr><tr class="border-b border-rule"><td class="py-2.5 pr-3">31 Mar <!-- -->2025</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹605.41 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 pr-3 text-right tabular-nums">₹7,846.65 cr</td><td class="py-2.5 text-right tabular-nums font-medium">₹8,452.07 cr</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></section><section id="idle" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live uppercase">05 — The year the money sat</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-4xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">Wayanad slid. Assam drowned. The corpus earned interest.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">FY 2024–25 is the year the trust spent<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹87.85 lakh</strong> —<!-- --> <!-- -->₹87,85,291<!-- --> — and earned<!-- --> <strong class="font-medium text-ink">₹475.28 cr</strong> <!-- -->sitting in the bank. The name on the deed is Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations. These were the emergencie
1s.</p><div class="mt-8 grid gap-px bg-rule md:grid-cols-3"><article class="bg-paper px-5 py-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">PM CARES, FY25 payments</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹87.85 lakh</p><p class="mt-2 text-sm text-ink-soft">Children scheme + ₹451 bank charges. No flood line. No landslide line. No cyclone line.</p></article><article class="bg-paper px-5 py-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">Centre, same year — SDRF + NDRF</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹23,131 cr</p><p class="mt-2 text-sm text-ink-soft">₹18,322.80 crore SDRF to 27 states and ₹4,808.30 crore NDRF to 18 states, per the Home Ministry’s FY25 tally. Public money, public rules.</p></article><article class="bg-paper px-5 py-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">Still in PM CARES on 31 Mar 2025</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹8,452 cr</p><p class="mt-2 text-sm text-ink-soft">More than half of everything ever donated, parked, while the Union sent NDRF files to the same hills and riverbanks.</p></article></div><ol class="mt-10 divide-y divide-rule"><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">01<!-- --> · <!-- -->30 July 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Wayanad, Kerala<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Landslides</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Mundakkai, Chooralmala and nearby villages were buried after two days of extreme rain. Hundreds died. The Prime Minister flew over the hills on 10 August and announced PMNRF ex-gratia — ₹2 lakh to the next of kin, ₹50,000 to the injured. PM CARES, of which he is ex-officio chair, records no landslide line on the FY25 payments face. The year’s entire programme spend is ₹87.85 lakh, on the Children scheme.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">02<!-- --> · <!-- -->Monsoon 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Assam<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The Brahmaputra did what it does every year, only worse in pockets. An Inter-Ministerial Central Team was sent. Relief that moved, moved through SDRF and NDRF — the Consolidated Fund. Not the ₹8,452 crore sitting in scheduled-bank accounts in the Prime Minister’s name.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">03<!-- --> · <!-- -->August 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Tripura<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Flash floods and landslides cut the state. In February 2025 the Home Ministry’s high-level committee cleared ₹288.93 crore of additional NDRF for Tripura as part of a ₹1,554.99 crore five-state package. PM CARES is not in that table.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">04<!-- --> · <!-- -->Monsoon 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Andhra Pradesh &amp; Telangana<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Floods / flash floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The same February 2025 package sent ₹608.08 crore of NDRF to Andhra Pradesh and ₹231.75 crore to Telangana. Two states, two lines, public money, a public auditor. The private-trust pile next door did not stir.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">05<!-- --> · <!-- -->Monsoon 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Gujarat<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
1An IMCT was constituted. Damage was assessed under NDRF/SDRF rules. Nothing equivalent appears in the PM CARES receipts-and-payments account for the year.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">06<!-- --> · <!-- -->Monsoon 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Bihar<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Twenty-five dead on the Home Ministry’s own IMCT table as of November 2024. The state has lived with flood relief as a seasonal file. FY25 PM CARES still has one programme line: children who lost parents to COVID, years earlier.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">07<!-- --> · <!-- -->Monsoon 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Himachal Pradesh<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Cloudbursts &amp; flash floods</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Hillsides gave way again. Roads, houses, apple country. The Centre’s disaster window is SDRF/NDRF. The fund that was sold as “citizen assistance and relief in emergency situations” earned ₹475 crore on fixed deposits that year.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[8rem_1fr] md:gap-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">08<!-- --> · <!-- -->May &amp; October 2024</p><div><h3 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Odisha &amp; West Bengal<span class="mt-1 block font-sans text-sm text-mute md:mt-0 md:inline md:ml-3">Cyclones Remal and Dana</span></h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Remal made landfall in May; Dana in October. Evacuations, camps, power down. Odisha’s additional NDRF slice in the February 2025 package was ₹255.24 crore. Cyclone is the textbook emergency the trust’s name describes. The FY25 payments total is still ₹87.85 lakh.</p></div></li></ol><aside class="mt-4 max-w-3xl border-l-4 border-out bg-panel px-5 py-6 md:px-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out uppercase">The Centre did spend. This fund did not.</p><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">In February 2025 a high-level committee chaired by the Union Home Minister cleared an extra ₹1,554.99 crore of NDRF for Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, Telangana and Tripura — floods, flash floods, landslides, cyclonic storm. That is the window the Constitution built: SDRF, NDRF, a public auditor, a Parliament that may ask. PM CARES was sold as a faster, kinder twin. In the year those states were hit, its faster twin wrote one cheque, to the Children scheme, for ₹87.84 lakh, and booked ₹451 as bank charges.</p></aside><div class="mt-12 grid gap-10 md:grid-cols-12"><div class="md:col-span-4"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">And the schools.</h3></div><div class="space-y-4 text-[15px] leading-relaxed text-ink-soft md:col-span-8"><p>Walk into a government school in the same districts that flooded. Roofs that leak. Toilets that don’t. Libraries that are a locked cupboard. Teachers on paper. The Annual Status of Education Report has said this, in public, for twenty years. UDISE+ still counts schools without a working toilet, without electricity, without a first-aid box. None of that is a secret.</p><p>PM CARES for Children is a ₹10 lakh fixed deposit for a child who lost both parents, or the surviving parent, to COVID — held until eighteen, with education and health cover. It is not a school building. It is not a toilet. It is not a teacher. In FY25 that scheme is the <em class="text-ink">only</em> programme on the payments face.</p><p>The trust deed is the chair’s to amend. The board is the Prime Minister and three cabinet ministers. If the emergency that filled the box is over, the question is not “can the deed fund a classroom.” The question is why a corpus that earned<!-- --> <!-- -->₹475.28 cr<!-- --> doing nothing cannot be put to government schools — roofs, toilets, kitchens, books — in the states that just buried their dead. ₹87.85 lakh is not an answer. It is a refusal dressed as a scheme.</p><p class="font-medium text-ink">Put it to the chair: spend on the floods that came. Spend on the schools that are still wet. Or say, in the Lok Sabha, why not.</p></div></div></div></section><section id="question" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">06 — The question from the feed</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-3xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">How transparent should a public-facing emergency fund be?</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">That is the sentence the books cannot answer, and the sentence the Instagram post of 16 August 2026 put back on the table. The accounts tell you the rupees. They do not tell you the donors. They do not travel through the RTI Act. This chapter puts the post next to the public re
1cord.</p><figure class="mt-8 overflow-hidden rounded-lg border border-ink bg-panel shadow-sheet"><figcaption class="flex flex-wrap items-baseline justify-between gap-2 border-b border-rule bg-chip/60 px-5 py-3"><span class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">Source · Instagram</span><span class="text-xs text-mute">@upscwith_sagar<!-- --> · <!-- -->16 August 2026</span></figcaption><blockquote class="space-y-3 px-5 py-6 md:px-8"><p class="max-w-2xl font-display text-xl leading-snug text-ink md:text-2xl">The PM CARES Fund is back under scrutiny over a central question: how transparent should a public-facing emergency fund be?</p><p class="max-w-2xl font-display text-xl leading-snug text-ink md:text-2xl">Debates around RTI applicability, disclosure of donations and institutional accountability continue to raise important governance concerns.</p><p class="max-w-2xl font-display text-xl leading-snug text-ink md:text-2xl">The issue sits at the intersection of transparency, public trust, executive accountability and the right to information.</p></blockquote><div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-between gap-3 border-t border-rule px-5 py-3 text-xs text-mute"><p>Posted by <!-- -->Sagar Bhagat<!-- -->. The slides themselves are not reproduced here — Instagram blocks the files. The caption is.</p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DcGswdTioL4/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="shrink-0 font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open the post</a></div></figure><div class="mt-10 grid gap-10 md:grid-cols-12"><div class="md:col-span-4"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">Three questions in the caption</h3><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">RTI, donors, accountability. Answered from the accounts you have already read, and from the court and commission record the accounts never mention.</p></div><ol class="space-y-6 md:col-span-8"><li class="border-t border-rule pt-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute">01</p><h4 class="mt-1 font-display text-xl tracking-tight">Does the Right to Information Act apply?</h4><p class="mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The PMO’s consistent answer since 2020 is no: the trust is not a “public authority” under the RTI Act, 2005. The Supreme Court in August 2020 refused to force a CAG audit. The Delhi High Court on 13 January 2026 called it a “juristic or government entity” and still left a privacy claim standing. A 2022 CIC order that the Income Tax department disclose the fund’s tax-exemption file was quashed the same year; the appeal is pending. So: you cannot today walk into a PIO’s office and demand the donor list.</p></li><li class="border-t border-rule pt-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute">02</p><h4 class="mt-1 font-display text-xl tracking-tight">Are donations disclosed?</h4><p class="mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Only as three pipes — domestic, foreign, interest. The six receipts-and-payments accounts never name a donor, a company, or a PSU. Official FAQ text says budgetary transfers from PSUs are not accepted, but CSR from companies and PSUs is, and it is not broken out. Foreign money is FCRA-exempt. The first rupees in the book are a ₹2.25 lakh corpus; the PMO has said that was the Prime Minister’s own seed. Everything after that is a total.</p></li><li class="border-t border-rule pt-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute">03</p><h4 class="mt-1 font-display text-xl tracking-tight">What institutional accountability exists?</h4><p class="mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">A private chartered accountant (SARC &amp; Associates through FY23; KKC &amp; Associates LLP for FY24–25), not the CAG. The statements are uploaded on pmcares.gov.in. Parliament is told questions do not lie, because the money is not from the Consolidated Fund. The trustees are the Prime Minister and the Defence, Home and Finance ministers, sitting ex officio; the PMO says that is “administrative convenience,” not government control. The trust uses the State Emblem and a gov.in domain. There was no Cabinet agenda to create it.</p></li></ol></div><div class="mt-12 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-2"><article class="rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 md:p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-in uppercase">What these six accounts do show</p><ul class="mt-4 space-y-2.5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft"><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Year-wise receipts: domestic donations, foreign donations, interest, agency refunds</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Year-wise payments, named by programme</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Opening and closing bank balances, and (from FY24) the split between savings and fixed deposits</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Name of the private chartered-accountant firm and the date the account was signed</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">That donor refunds exist, and (from FY24) their rupee total</li></ul></article><article class="rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 md:p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out uppercase">What they still do not show</p><ul class="mt-4 space-y-2.5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft"><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Who donated, and how much — no donor list, no PSU/private split</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Vendors, unit prices, tender method, or how many units were actually delivered</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">The auditor’s qualifications, emphasis-of-matter, or management letter — only the R&amp;P face is public</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Unspent money still sitting with implementing agencies</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Names of children on the PM CARES for Children scheme, or how many FDs were opened</li><li class="border-b border-rule/70 pb-2 last:border-0">Why the corpus was moved into fixed deposits rather than spent</li></ul></article></div><div class="mt-12"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">A public-record timeline</h3><p class="mt-2 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">The Instagram post landed two days after FY24 and FY25 were signed, and two weeks after newsp
1apers flagged a two-year hole on the website. The hole was real. The new statements close it — as receipts and payments, not as an RTI file.</p><ol class="mt-8 border-l border-ink pl-0"><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">27 Mar 2020</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">Trust registered</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Registered as a public charitable trust under the Registration Act, 1908, at New Delhi. Prime Minister is ex-officio chair; Defence, Home and Finance ministers are ex-officio trustees. Announced the next day.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">Jun 2020</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">No Cabinet agenda</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Cabinet Secretariat reply to an RTI (Anjali Bhardwaj): there was no agenda item in any Cabinet meeting specifically related to creating the fund.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">Aug 2020</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">Supreme Court, CPIL</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Court refuses to order a transfer of the corpus to the National Disaster Response Fund, or a CAG audit. It treats the fund as a public charitable trust of voluntary contributions, auditable by a private accountant.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">2020–21</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">PMO: not a public authority</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Repeated RTI replies from the PMO: the trust is not a “public authority” under the RTI Act, 2005, so the office will not disclose the trust deed, donor lists, or internal papers under that Act.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">27 Apr 2022</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">CIC vs Income Tax</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Central Information Commission directs the Income Tax department to give Girish Mittal details of tax exemptions granted to the fund. A single judge of the Delhi High Court quashes that order in July 2022. The appeal is still live.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">Jan 2023</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">PMO affidavit</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">In the Delhi High Court the PMO says the trust is “neither intended to be nor is in fact owned, controlled, or substantially financed by any government,” and is not “the State” under Article 12.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">13 Jan 2026</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">Delhi High Court</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">A bench observes that although the fund is a “juristic or government entity”, it cannot be denied a claim to privacy under the RTI Act. The tax-exemption appeal remains pending.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">Budget 2026</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">Parliament questions blocked</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">PMO writes to the Lok Sabha Secretariat that questions on the fund cannot be taken up: it is not paid from the Consolidated Fund, and Rule 41 keeps out matters “not primarily the concern” of the Union government. Former LS Secretary-General P.D.T. Achary says admission of questions is the Speaker’s, not the PMO’s.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">31 Jul 2026</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">The audit gap is noticed</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Public reporting (The Hindu and others) notes that no audited statement later than FY 2022–23 is on the website. That gap is real: FY23 was signed 29 March 2024; FY24 and FY25 are signed only on 6–7 August 2026.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-2 border-b border-rule py-4 md:grid-cols-[8.5rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="pl-4 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute uppercase md:pl-6">16 Aug 2026</p><div class="pl-4 md:pl-0"><p class="font-medium">The Instagram question</p><p class="mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Sagar Bhagat (@upscwith_sagar) posts the carousel this chapter answers: how transparent should a public-facing emergency fund be?</p></div></li></ol></div></div></section><section id="lock" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-out uppercase">07 — The appeal, then the lock</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-4xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">He asked the country to pay. Then he locked the books.</h2><p class="mt-5 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
1On 28 March 2020 the Prime Minister, in his own name, asked Indians for money. Four days later the trust held <!-- -->₹3,076.63 cr<!-- -->. Six years later the same chair has kept the donor list, the CAG and the Lok Sabha off the file. The two newspapers of 18 August 2026 only restated what these accounts already say. The argument is not the rupees. The argument is the silence around them.</p><div class="mt-10 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-3"><blockquote class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">@narendramodi<!-- --> · <!-- -->28 March 2020<span class="ml-2 text-faint">tweet <!-- -->1</span></p><p class="mt-3 flex-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug">People from all walks of life expressed their desire to donate to India’s war against COVID-19. Respecting that spirit, the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund has been constituted. This will go a long way in creating a healthier India.</p><a href="https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1243860826815004672" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs text-mute underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:text-ink">Open the tweet</a></blockquote><blockquote class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">@narendramodi<!-- --> · <!-- -->28 March 2020<span class="ml-2 text-faint">tweet <!-- -->2</span></p><p class="mt-3 flex-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug">It is my appeal to my fellow Indians, Kindly contribute to the PM-CARES Fund. This Fund will also cater to similar distressing situations, if they occur in the times ahead.</p><a href="https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1243861073444237314" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs text-mute underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:text-ink">Open the tweet</a></blockquote><blockquote class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">@narendramodi<!-- --> · <!-- -->28 March 2020<span class="ml-2 text-faint">tweet <!-- -->3</span></p><p class="mt-3 flex-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug">The PM-CARES Fund accepts micro-donations too. It will strengthen disaster management capacities and encourage research on protecting citizens. Let us leave no stone unturned to make India healthier and more prosperous for our future generations.</p><a href="https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1243861543185305603" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs text-mute underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:text-ink">Open the tweet</a></blockquote></div><p class="mt-6 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-mute">Read those sentences again. Citizen assistance. Emergency. Disaster management. Research. A healthier India. Micro-donations. Future distressing situations. He did not say “private trust.” He did not say “outside RTI.” He did not say “the Comptroller and Auditor General will not see this.” He did not say “Parliament may not ask.” Those doors were shut later, by the same office that made the appeal.</p><div class="mt-12"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight md:text-3xl">Three doors, locked from inside</h3><p class="mt-3 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">A fund that uses the Prime Minister’s name, the State Emblem, a gov.in domain, three Union ministers as trustees, 80G, CSR and FCRA exemption, and the whole machinery of missions and ministries to raise money, is then described as a private charitable trust when anyone asks to see the list.</p><ol class="mt-8 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-3"><li class="rounded-lg border border-ink bg-ink p-5 text-paper md:p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-paper/50 uppercase">RTI</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl leading-tight">Not a public authority</p><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/75">The PMO’s line since June 2020: the trust is not a “public authority” under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Citizen applications for the trust deed, donor lists and internal papers are refused. A 2022 CIC order telling the Income Tax department to open the tax-exemption file was quashed. The Delhi High Court in January 2026 still left a privacy claim standing.</p></li><li class="rounded-lg border border-ink bg-ink p-5 text-paper md:p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-paper/50 uppercase">CAG</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl leading-tight">Not the Comptroller and Auditor General</p><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/75">The Supreme Court in August 2020 refused to order a CAG audit. The books are signed by a private chartered-accountant firm — SARC, then KKC. That is not the same as a public audit. There is no published management letter, no UDIN on the face of the statements the critics examined, and no notes to accounts on the website.</p></li><li class="rounded-lg border border-ink bg-ink p-5 text-paper md:p-6"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-paper/50 uppercase">Parliament</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl leading-tight">Questions do not lie</p><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/75">Ahead of the 2026 Budget session the PMO wrote to the Lok Sabha Secretariat that questions on the fund cannot be taken up: the money is not from the Consolidated Fund, and Rule 41 keeps out matters “not primarily the concern” of the Union government. Former Secretary-General P.D.T. Achary said admission of questions is the Speaker’s, not the PMO’s. The chair of the trust is the Prime Minister. The House is told it cannot ask him.</p></li></ol></div><div class="mt-14"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight md:text-3xl">Two papers, 18 August 2026</h3><p class="mt-3 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The Telegraph and Deccan Herald published the new statements the same day. Their headlines are the books, compressed. Their quotes are the questions the chair has not answered.</p><div class="mt-8 grid gap-4 lg:grid-cols-2"><article class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg border border-ink bg-panel shadow-sheet"><header class="border-b border-rule bg-chip/70 px-5 py-3"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">The Telegraph<!-- --> · <!-- -->18 August 2026</p><p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-mute">Web Desk, with PTI</p></header><div class="flex flex-1 flex-col px-5 py-5"><h4 class="font-display text-xl leading-snug tracking-tight md:text-2xl">‘PM CARES? hardly’: Barbs and questions fly after Rs 8,452-crore fund reveal in audit</h4><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Opposition and transparency activists read the new statements as a pile of idle money raised in an emergency that is over.</p><ul class="mt-5 space-y-4"><li class="border-l-2 border-out pl-4"><p class="text-sm leading-relaxed">₹8,452 crore sitting idle while people suffer. PM CARES? Hardly.</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute">Pawan Khera, Congress</p></li><li class="border-l-2 border-out pl-4"><p class="text-sm leading-relaxed">Modi govt owes India 3 answers: Who donated? Why is it not being spent? Why is it still hidden from public audit?</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute">Kushagra Saxena, Congress</p></li><li class="border-l-2 border-out pl-4"><p class="text-sm leading-relaxed">324 crore was refunded by implementing agencies — but no info on what these payments were for and why these were refunded? Which agency refunded?</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute">Anjali Bhardwaj, RTI activist</p></li></ul></div><footer class="border-t border-rule px-5 py-3"><a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/pm-cares-hardly-barbs-and-questions-fly-after-rs-8452-crore-fund-reveal-in-audit/cid/2175576" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-sm font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:
1decoration-ink">Open the article</a></footer></article><article class="flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-lg border border-ink bg-panel shadow-sheet"><header class="border-b border-rule bg-chip/70 px-5 py-3"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-mute uppercase">Deccan Herald<!-- --> · <!-- -->18 August 2026</p><p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-mute">Shemin Joy</p></header><div class="flex flex-1 flex-col px-5 py-5"><h4 class="font-display text-xl leading-snug tracking-tight md:text-2xl">PM-CARES fund receives Rs 1,162.92 crore, spends only Rs 16.47 crore during 2023-25: Audit report</h4><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Two years of donations, two years of almost no programme. The headline numbers match these six accounts once donor refunds are netted the way the auditor nets them.</p><ul class="mt-5 space-y-4"><li class="border-l-2 border-out pl-4"><p class="text-sm leading-relaxed">Finally the audit statement of PMCARES Fund for 2024-25 has been made public! Utilised only 0.01% of available ₹8,452 crore. 324 crore was refunded by implementing agencies — but no info on what these payments were for. The PMCARES Fund continues to evade public scrutiny by refusing to submit itself to the RTI Act.</p><p class="mt-1 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.08em] text-mute">Anjali Bhardwaj (@AnjaliB_), the post Deccan Herald embedded</p></li></ul></div><footer class="border-t border-rule px-5 py-3"><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/pm-cares-fund-receives-rs-116292-crore-spends-only-rs-1647-crore-during-2023-25-audit-report-4115413" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-sm font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open the article</a></footer></article></div></div><div class="mt-12 rounded-lg border border-ink bg-ink px-5 py-8 text-paper md:px-10 md:py-10"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-paper/50 uppercase">Checked against these six accounts · FY24 + FY25</p><p class="mt-3 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Deccan Herald’s ₹1,162.92 crore is domestic plus foreign donations for the two years, net of money sent back to donors — the same netting the auditor uses. ₹16.47 crore is the two years of stated payments. Both numbers hold.</p><dl class="mt-8 grid gap-6 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-4"><div><dt class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-paper/50 uppercase">Donations in, two years</dt><dd class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹1,162.92 cr</dd></div><div><dt class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-paper/50 uppercase">Stated payments, two years</dt><dd class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹16.48 cr</dd></div><div><dt class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-paper/50 uppercase">Interest earned, two years</dt><dd class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">₹612.97 cr</dd></div><div><dt class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-paper/50 uppercase">FY25 spend / closing pile</dt><dd class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">0.010%</dd></div></dl><p class="mt-8 max-w-3xl font-display text-2xl leading-snug md:text-3xl">In two years the pile earned <!-- -->₹612.97 cr<!-- --> sitting in the bank, and spent <!-- -->₹16.48 cr<!-- --> — <!-- -->2.7%<!-- --> of the interest, and <!-- -->1.4%<!-- --> of the new donations. The rest is still there. <!-- -->₹7,846.65 cr<!-- --> of it is in fixed deposits.</p></div><div class="mt-14"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight md:text-3xl">Five questions. No answer from the chair.</h3><ol class="mt-8 divide-y divide-rule border-y border-rule"><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out">01</p><div><h4 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Who donated?</h4><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The receipts-and-payments accounts never name a person, a company, a PSU, or a foreign donor. CSR was made eligible the day the fund was announced. Budgetary transfers from PSUs are officially not accepted — CSR from those same PSUs is. You cannot check either claim from these books.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out">02</p><div><h4 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Why sit on ₹8,452 crore after the emergency that raised it?</h4><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">FY25 programme spend is ₹87.85 lakh — 0.01% of the closing pile. In FY24 and FY25 together the trust took in ₹1,162.92 crore of donations (net of donor refunds) and spent ₹16.48 crore. Interest on the fixed deposits in those two years, ₹612.97 crore, is thirty-seven times the spend. The standing defence is “reserved for the next crisis.” The appeal that filled the box was for this one.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out">03</p><div><h4 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Why is it still outside public audit?</h4><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Not RTI. Not CAG. Not Parliament. The FY24 year ended 31 March 2024; the signature is 7 August 2026 — twenty-eight months later. FY25 is sixteen months late. Private charitable trusts are still supposed to be audited. A two-year hole on the website is not a private convenience. It is a public silence.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out">04</p><div><h4 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Which agencies sent ₹324.66 crore back, and why?</h4><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">FY25 shows ₹324.66 crore of refunds from implementing agencies, with no agency, no programme, no reason. Earlier years at least named the lines — ventilators, PSA plants, Bihar hospitals. Anjali Bhardwaj asked whether refunds were used to bury faulty equipment. The accounts cannot answer her. They were not built to.</p></div></li><li class="grid gap-3 py-6 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr] md:gap-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out">05</p><div><h4 class="font-display text-xl tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Where is the Prime Minister’s explanation?</h4><p class="mt-2 max-w-3xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
1He is the ex-officio chair. He made the appeal in his own name. On 18 August 2026 the two papers that published these numbers quote the Opposition and an RTI activist. They do not quote him. They do not quote the Finance Minister. The PMO’s contribution is the standing line that questions do not lie, and that the trust is not a public authority. That is a refusal, not an explanation.</p></div></li></ol></div><aside class="mt-12 max-w-3xl border-l-4 border-out bg-panel px-5 py-6 md:px-8"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-out uppercase">The government’s defence, and why it is not enough</p><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">The standing line is that the money is voluntary, that it is not from the Consolidated Fund, that it is held for the next national emergency, and that interest on the fixed deposits is itself a public good. All of that can be true and still not settle the original bargain. A Prime Minister who asks “fellow Indians” for micro-donations in a lockdown, who puts three cabinet ministers on the board, who lets companies count the gift as CSR, who prints the State Emblem on the page, has already used the authority of the State. You do not get to put that authority back in the box when the receipt is asked for.</p><p class="mt-4 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Transparency is not a courtesy a private trustee may withhold. It is the minimum the appeal implied. Until the donor list is published, until the CAG or an equivalent public auditor is allowed in, until the Lok Sabha may put a question, and until the chair explains — in his own voice — why ₹8,452 crore sits in the bank after the emergency that filled it, PM CARES remains a public fund with private rules. That is not a legal subtlety. It is the record.</p></aside></div></section><section id="demand" class="border-b border-ink bg-ink text-paper"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live uppercase">08 — Accountability</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-4xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-5xl">Five demands. Put them to the chair.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">The Rooster News puts these to the Prime Minister, the three ex-officio trustees, and the PMO. The books are public. The answers are not. Until they are, PM CARES remains a public fund with private rules.</p><ol class="mt-10 grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-5"><li class="flex flex-col rounded-md border border-paper/15 bg-paper/5 p-4 md:p-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live">01</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-xl leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Bring it under RTI</h3><p class="mt-3 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Notify PM CARES as a public authority under the Right to Information Act, 2005. A fund that uses the Prime Minister’s name, the emblem and a gov.in domain cannot hide behind “private trust.”</p></li><li class="flex flex-col rounded-md border border-paper/15 bg-paper/5 p-4 md:p-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live">02</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-xl leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Give it to the CAG</h3><p class="mt-3 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Order a Comptroller and Auditor General audit of the full corpus — donations, foreign inflows, fixed deposits, interest, agency refunds and every implementing-agency unspent balance — not a private chartered accountant’s receipts-and-payments face.</p></li><li class="flex flex-col rounded-md border border-paper/15 bg-paper/5 p-4 md:p-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live">03</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-xl leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Publish the donors</h3><p class="mt-3 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Release the institutional donor list: every PSU, company, ministry drive and foreign contributor, with amounts. Individual small donors may be anonymised. CSR and public-sector money cannot be a secret.</p></li><li class="flex flex-col rounded-md border border-paper/15 bg-paper/5 p-4 md:p-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live">04</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-xl leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Open the notes</h3><p class="mt-3 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Upload the notes to accounts, utilisation certificates, agency-wise refunds, vendor contracts and the criteria for the Children scheme. FY25’s ₹324.66 crore came back with no names. That is not an audit. It is a blank.</p></li><li class="flex flex-col rounded-md border border-paper/15 bg-paper/5 p-4 md:p-5"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live">05</p><h3 class="mt-2 font-display text-xl leading-tight tracking-tight md:text-2xl">Answer in Parliament</h3><p class="mt-3 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70">Withdraw the PMO’s instruction that questions on the fund do not lie. The chair sits in the House. The three other trustees are ministers. Let the Lok Sabha ask why ₹8,452 crore sat in fixed deposits through Wayanad, the 2024 floods and two cyclones, and why government schools still wait.</p></li></ol><div class="mt-14 grid gap-10 md:grid-cols-12"><div class="md:col-span-4"><h3 class="font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">Questions the government has not answered</h3><p class="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/60">Addressed to:</p><ul class="mt-2 space-y-1.5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-paper/70"><li>Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, ex-officio Chair, PM CARES Fund</li><li>Minister of Defence, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Finance — ex-officio trustees</li><li>Prime Minister’s Office · Ministry of Finance · Cabinet Secretariat</li></ul></div><ol class="space-y-5 md:col-span-8"><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->01</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Why did a fund raised by a Prime Minister’s public appeal — with the State Emblem, a gov.in domain, and three cabinet ministers as trustees — lock itself out of the RTI Act?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->02</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Who donated? How much came from PSUs, from private companies counting CSR, and from foreign sources? The receipts-and-payments accounts never name a donor.</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->03</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Why were the FY24 and FY25 accounts signed only on 7 August 2026 — twenty-eight months after FY24 ended — against the trust deed’s own rule of a yearly audit?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->04</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Which implementing agencies returned ₹324.66 crore in FY25, for what, and were any refunds used to bury faulty equipment?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->05</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Why was ₹87.85 lakh — 0.01% of ₹8,452 crore — spent in FY25, in a year of Wayanad landslides, Assam and Tripura floods, Himachal cloudbur
1sts and cyclones Remal and Dana, while the pile earned ₹475 crore sitting in fixed deposits?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->06</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">The Centre released ₹18,323 crore of SDRF and ₹4,808 crore of NDRF the same year. Why did the faster, kinder twin — PM CARES — write no flood, landslide or cyclone cheque?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->07</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Will the chair put any of the idle corpus into government schools — roofs, toilets, kitchens, books — or will PM CARES for Children remain the only education line, a ₹10 lakh FD for COVID orphans, while classrooms leak?</p></li><li class="border-t border-paper/15 pt-4"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live">Q<!-- -->08</p><p class="mt-1 font-display text-lg leading-snug md:text-xl">Will the chair — the Prime Minister — answer in his own voice, or will the PMO go on telling the Lok Sabha that questions do not lie?</p></li></ol></div></div></section><section id="voices" class="border-b border-rule"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-live uppercase">09 — From the record, and from X</p><h2 class="mt-2 max-w-3xl font-display text-3xl tracking-tight md:text-4xl">What they said when the books finally appeared.</h2><p class="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">Anjali Bhardwaj’s 18 August post is the thread Deccan Herald embedded. The rest are party statements. None of them are the accounts. They are here because the chair of the trust has not answered them. Each card links to the original.</p><article class="mt-8 rounded-lg border border-ink bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet md:p-8"><header class="flex flex-wrap items-baseline justify-between gap-2"><div><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.16em] text-live uppercase">Featured · the post the papers used</p><p class="mt-2 font-display text-2xl tracking-tight">Anjali Bhardwaj</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@AnjaliB_<!-- --> · <!-- -->RTI activist · Satark Nagrik Sangathan<!-- --> · <!-- -->18 Aug 2026</p></div><a href="https://x.com/AnjaliB_/status/2089644086236250501" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-sm font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></header><blockquote class="mt-6 max-w-3xl whitespace-pre-line font-display text-xl leading-snug md:text-2xl">Finally the audit statement of PMCARES Fund for 2024-25 has been made public! Key highlights-
2-Utilised only 0.01% of available ₹ 8,452 crore! Why is the PMCARES Fund keeping such large sums of money idle?
3-324 crore was refunded by implementing agencies- but no info on what these payments were for and why these were refunded? Which agency refunded? Were refunds done to evade accountability for faulty equipment?
4-Why have accompanying notes to the audit report not been uploaded?
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6A fund set up to help citizens during disasters, which has accumulated thousands of crores (including from foreign sources), is shrouded in secrecy. Still no information available on sources of funds. The PMCARES Fund continues to evade public scrutiny by refusing to submit itself to the RTI Act.</blockquote><figure class="mt-6 max-w-lg"><img src="/photos/anjali-post.jpg" alt="Screenshot from Anjali Bhardwaj’s post: PM CARES FY 2024-25, ₹8,452 crore available, 0.01% utilised." class="w-full rounded-md border border-rule"/><figcaption class="mt-2 text-xs text-mute">The card she attached. 18 August 2026.</figcaption></figure></article><div class="mt-8 grid gap-3 md:grid-cols-2"><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Anjali Bhardwaj</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@AnjaliB_<!-- --> · <!-- -->RTI activist · Satark Nagrik Sangathan</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">18 Aug 2026</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">So PMCARES Fund got its accounts for FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 audited only on August 7, 2026! This violates even the PMCARES Fund own trust deed which states that accounts will be audited once in every financial year. The resistance to transparency and scrutiny in PMCARES raises serious questions.</p><a href="https://x.com/AnjaliB_/status/2089759949874463011" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:
6decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Pawan Khera</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@Pawankhera<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress · Rajya Sabha, CWC</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">18 Aug 2026</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">Only 0.01% of the ₹8,452 crore available has been utilised — even as natural calamities devastate communities across the country and thousands need relief and rehabilitation. ₹8,452 crore sitting idle while people suffer. PM CARES? Hardly.</p><a href="https://x.com/Pawankhera/status/2089669513264636085" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Syed Naseer Hussain</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@NasirHussainINC<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress · Rajya Sabha, CWC</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">19 Aug 2026</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">The Modi Government has evaded accountability on the PM CARES Fund by refusing to submit it to the RTI Act. After a delay of two years, its FY 2024-25 audit statement has finally been made public. A fund created to help citizens during emergencies and disasters cannot remain shrouded in secrecy. Why is the Modi Government keeping thousands of crores idle when people across India face floods, cyclones, droughts and other disasters?</p><a href="https://x.com/NasirHussainINC/status/2089933912437121145" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Pawan Khera</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@Pawankhera<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress · Rajya Sabha, CWC</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">9 Feb 2026</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">PMO blocks Lok Sabha Secretariat from taking up questions &amp; matters on PM CARES Fund, Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund and National Defence Fund. Democracy’s oxygen saturation levels are falling rapidly!</p><a href="https://x.com/Pawankhera/status/2020688149870211393" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Rahul Gandhi</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@RahulGandhi<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress · Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">17 Dec 2020</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">PM Cares- &#x27;Chaliye, transparency ko vanakkam&#x27;!</p><a href="https://x.com/RahulGandhi/status/1339426376768614402" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Indian National Congress</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@INCIndia<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">11 May 2022</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">You donated your money to the PM Cares Fund. You thought it would help the country deal with the disaster that was Covid. What did you get in return? No hospital beds, no oxygen, no medicines, and no relief.</p><a href="https://x.com/INCIndia/status/1524383996095844352" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:
6decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Indian National Congress</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@INCIndia<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">2 Jun 2022</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">Donations to PM Cares fund were not used as they should have- we saw that during the deadly second wave. But only in BJP’s New India can funds donated by the people, be loaned back to the people, at an interest. Only BJP can turn a relief fund into a profitable business scheme.</p><a href="https://x.com/INCIndia/status/1532225496741646336" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Indian National Congress</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@INCIndia<!-- --> · <!-- -->Congress</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">19 Nov 2024</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">The present CAG has been quiet and has gone into a slumber for the past 10 years. They have even refused to audit the PM CARES Fund, which has money that comes from the PSEs.</p><a href="https://x.com/INCIndia/status/1858824661930291399" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">Aam Aadmi Party</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@AamAadmiParty<!-- --> · <!-- -->AAP</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">11 Feb 2026</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">आख़िर PM Cares फंड की जानकारियों को क्यों छुपा रही है मोदी सरकार? जनता की गाढ़ी कमाई से बने PM Cares फंड का पैसा कहां खर्च हुआ?</p><a href="https://x.com/AamAadmiParty/status/2021479313883750592" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">All India Trinamool Congress</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@AITCofficial<!-- --> · <!-- -->TMC</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">8 May 2023</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">PM CARES ki aap chronology samajhiye! Established by Govt yet not public. RTI filing not applicable. Crores of funds unspent. WHERE are the funds going?</p><a href="https://x.com/AITCofficial/status/1655583065882738700" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article><article class="flex flex-col rounded-lg border border-rule bg-panel p-5 shadow-sheet"><header class="flex items-baseline justify-between gap-3"><div><p class="font-medium">All India Trinamool Congress</p><p class="font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">@AITCofficial<!-- --> · <!-- -->TMC</p></div><p class="shrink-0 font-mono text-[11px] text-mute">12 Aug 2023</p></header><p class="mt-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">BJP’s endless failures — PM Cares Fund: SHAM. PM @narendramodi, your DECEIT is out in the open!</p><a href="https://x.com/AITCofficial/status/1690308052178849794" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:
6decoration-ink">Open on X</a></article></div></div></section><section id="notes"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-12 md:px-6 md:py-16"><p class="font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.18em] text-mute uppercase">10 — How to read the numbers</p><h2 class="mt-2 font-display text-3xl tracking-tight">Notes on the accounts</h2><ol class="mt-6 max-w-3xl list-decimal space-y-3 pl-5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft"><li>Source documents are the audited Receipts and Payments accounts for the periods ended 31 March 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. FY20–FY23 were signed by SARC &amp; Associates; FY24 and FY25 by KKC &amp; Associates LLP (formerly Khimji Kunverji &amp; Co LLP) on 7 August 2026.</li><li>Indian financial years run 1 April to 31 March. FY19–20 is a four-day stub after the trust was constituted on 27 March 2020.</li><li>“New money” / “came in” is the donations line as printed on that year’s receipts face, plus interest (including the FY25 TDS refund on FD interest). Refunds of unspent grants from implementing agencies are shown separately — they are the same rupees coming home, not a second donation.</li><li>Recheck, 19 August 2026: FY24 and FY25 had been grossed up. The auditor prints those two years’ donations <em>net</em> of money returned to donors (₹1.62 crore and ₹2.43 crore) and does<!-- --> <em>not</em> show those refunds as payments. The first version of this report added the refunds back on both sides, so FY25 “went out” read ₹3.31 crore against a PDF payments total of ₹0.88 crore, and six-year “paid out” was ₹8,152 crore instead of the ₹8,148 crore you get by adding the six Total Payments lines. Both sides now follow the signed face. FY20–FY23 still print donor refunds as payments; those years were already right. Programme disbursal lines, interest, agency refunds and all six closings were already right.</li><li>FY24 and FY25 refunds from implementing agencies are not split by programme. Net spend on named lines is therefore slightly overstated if some of that ₹408.97 crore belongs to them; the all-programme net figure subtracts the lot.</li><li>A few yearly totals in the printed PDFs differ from the sum of printed lines by ₹1–2, ordinary rounding. Closings used here are the printed closings.</li><li>The accounts do not record commitments or unspent balances sitting with implementing agencies — only cash that has left, or come back to, the trust&#x27;s own bank accounts.</li><li>Chapter 06 is prompted by Sagar Bhagat&#x27;s Instagram post of 16 August 2026 (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DcGswdTioL4/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">@upscwith_sagar</a>). The legal timeline draws on the Supreme Court&#x27;s August 2020 CPIL order, CIC/Delhi High Court proceedings around Girish Mittal, the PMO&#x27;s January 2023 affidavit, the Cabinet Secretariat&#x27;s June 2020 RTI reply, Frontline (24 February 2026) and The Hindu (31 July 2026) on the audit-publication gap. It is not part of the audited R&amp;P figures.</li><li>Chapter 07 is a critical reading, not a second set of accounts. It quotes Narendra Modi&#x27;s three tweets of 28 March 2020 (<a href="https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1243861073444237314" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">@narendramodi</a>), and two newspapers of 18 August 2026:<!-- --> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/pm-cares-hardly-barbs-and-questions-fly-after-rs-8452-crore-fund-reveal-in-audit/cid/2175576" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">The Telegraph</a> <!-- -->and<!-- --> <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/pm-cares-fund-receives-rs-116292-crore-spends-only-rs-1647-crore-during-2023-25-audit-report-4115413" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">Deccan Herald</a> <!-- -->(Shemin Joy). Deccan Herald&#x27;s ₹1,162.92 crore is FY24+FY25 domestic and foreign donations net of donor refunds; ₹16.47 crore is the two years of stated payments. Both match these books. The chapter&#x27;s argument — that a public appeal in the Prime Minister&#x27;s name cannot later be treated as a private silence — is the editor&#x27;s, not the auditor&#x27;s.</li><li>Chapter 05 lists disasters inside FY 2024–25 — Wayanad landslides (30 July 2024), Assam, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Bihar floods, Himachal cloudbur
6sts, cyclones Remal and Dana — against the FY25 payments total of ₹87.85 lakh. SDRF ₹18,322.80 crore to 27 states and NDRF ₹4,808.30 crore to 18 states in FY25, and the extra ₹1,554.99 crore five-state NDRF package (Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, Telangana, Tripura), are from the Home Ministry / PIB as reported by The Hindu on 19 February 2025. PMNRF ex-gratia after Wayanad is the Prime Minister’s 10 August 2024 announcement, not a PM CARES line. The school argument is an editorial demand, not a claim that the present trust deed already funds classrooms.</li><li>Chapter 08 is The Rooster News&#x27;s five demands of the chair — RTI, CAG, donor list, notes to accounts, and Parliament — plus six questions addressed to the Prime Minister, the ex-officio trustees and the PMO. They are the editor&#x27;s demands, not the auditor&#x27;s.</li><li>Chapter 09 quotes Anjali Bhardwaj&#x27;s 18 August 2026 post (<a href="https://x.com/AnjaliB_/status/2089644086236250501" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4">@AnjaliB_</a>— the thread Deccan Herald embedded), her follow-up on the trust deed, and party posts from Pawan Khera, Syed Naseer Hussain, Rahul Gandhi, @INCIndia, @AamAadmiParty and @AITCofficial. They are politics, with a link on every card. They are not evidence of how the rupees moved — the accounts are.</li><li>Lead photograph: Narendra Modi with the PM CARES mark (India Today, 18 Aug 2026). Used as news illustration, credited on the page.</li></ol><div class="mt-10"><p class="text-sm text-ink-soft">Each card opens that year’s receipts-and-payments PDF on<!-- --> <a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/en/web/page/about_us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="font-medium text-ink underline decoration-rule underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-ink">pmcares.gov.in</a>.</p><div class="mt-3 grid gap-2 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3"><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited%20Statement.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2019–20</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">SARC &amp; Associates<br/>Signed <!-- -->9 July 2020</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited_Statement_2020_21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2020–21</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">SARC &amp; Associates<br/>Signed <!-- -->11 January 2022</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited_Statement_2021_22.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2021–22</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">SARC &amp; Associates<br/>Signed <!-- -->30 September 2022</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited_Statement_2022_23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2022–23</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">SARC &amp; Associates<br/>Signed <!-- -->29 March 2024</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited_Statement_2023_24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2023–24</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">KKC &amp; Associates LLP<br/>Signed <!-- -->7 August 2026</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a><a href="https://pmcares.gov.in/assets/donation/pdf/Audited_Statement_2024_25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="rounded-md border border-rule px-4 py-3 transition-colors hover:border-ink hover:bg-chip"><p class="font-medium">2024–25</p><p class="mt-1 text-xs text-mute">KKC &amp; Associates LLP<br/>Signed <!-- -->7 August 2026</p><p class="mt-2 font-mono text-[11px] tracking-[0.12em] text-live uppercase">Open PDF</p></a></div></div></div></section></main><footer class="border-t border-ink bg-ink text-paper"><div class="mx-auto max-w-6xl px-4 py-10 md:px-6"><div class="flex flex-wrap items-end justify-between gap-6"><div>
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