Why Maharashtra and Delhi Govt built 1 oxygen plant each when PM Cares Fund allocated money for 10 and 8 oxygen plants respectively?

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PM CARES Fund Trust allocates Rs.201.58 crores for installation of 162 dedicated PSA Medical Oxygen Generation Plants in public health facilities – https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=...


Oxygen plants built by 18th April – https://www.business-standard.com/article/curre...

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Why only MH and Delhi?
Is it because they got unlucky with too many casualties? or the other states had got their prediction right that they will be the less affected ones during second wave?

Or the obvious reason… IT cells forwarding the same thing everywhere?

Based on the press release by PIB, Fund trust allocated 14 (Max for any state) to UP and how many they’ve built? Only ONE

Out of 162 PSA plants sanctioned by the union government, 33 have already been installed – five in Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three each in Chandigarh, Gujarat, and Uttarakhand, two each in Bihar, Karnataka, and Telangana; and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh," the Ministry added in series of tweets.

UP – 1/14
MH – 1/10
MP – 5/8
Gujarat – 3/8
Delhi – 1/8
Himachal Pradesh – 4/7
Uttarakhand – 3/7
Odisha – 0/7
Haryana – 1/6
Puducherry – 1/6
Karnataka – 2/6
Assam – 0/6
J&K – 0/6
Telangana – 2/5
Kerala – 1/5
Andhra – 1/5
WB – 0/5
& the rest
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As for the reason “WHY
Read this from Nipun Vinayak, Deputy Secretary, GOI

The Joint Secretary (Health), informed the apex court that only one plant, at the Burari Hospital, has been installed so far. He, however, could not answer whether the plant was operational.
Four more plants are likely to be installed by April 30, the Ministry informed the SC. For the remaining three plants, paperwork remains incomplete as of yet.
Site clearance for one PSA plant was received by the Health Ministry on April 19, while the proposed sites at Raja Harish Chandra Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital were found to be “unsuitable”.
“At least the blame is on both Central government hospitals and Delhi government hospitals,” said the Delhi High Court as lawyers for the Delhi government and the Centre blamed each other for delays in setting up oxygen plants.

According to the affidavit, 162 PSA plants have been sanctioned under PM CARES fund at a cost of Rs 202 crore across the country. The government is paying only for the installation of plants, while the centralised pipeline for oxygen has to be set up and paid for by hospitals.

However, the work had stalled while Covid-19 numbers were in control earlier this year.
“In January and February, Covid cases came down, so work slowed down. We are working on this,” Joint Secretary (Health) Nipun Vinayak said to the Delhi High Court
https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/...
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Both Central+State governments are equally responsible at least based on the JS statements!

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Why only MH and Delhi?
Is it because they got unlucky with too many casualties? or the other states had got their prediction right that they will be the less affected ones during second wave?

Or the obvious reason… IT cells forwarding the same thing everywhere?

Based on the press release by PIB, Fund trust allocated 14 (Max for any state) to UP and how many they’ve built? Only ONE

Out of 162 PSA plants sanctioned by the union government, 33 have already been installed – five in Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three each in Chandigarh, Gujarat, and Uttarakhand, two each in Bihar, Karnataka, and Telangana; and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh," the Ministry added in series of tweets.

UP – 1/14
MH – 1/10
MP – 5/8
Gujarat – 3/8
Delhi – 1/8
Himachal Pradesh – 4/7
Uttarakhand – 3/7
Odisha – 0/7
Haryana – 1/6
Puducherry – 1/6
Karnataka – 2/6
Assam – 0/6
J&K – 0/6
Telangana – 2/5
Kerala – 1/5
Andhra – 1/5
WB – 0/5
& the rest
_

As for the reason “WHY
Read this from Nipun Vinayak, Deputy Secretary, GOI

The Joint Secretary (Health), informed the apex court that only one plant, at the Burari Hospital, has been installed so far. He, however, could not answer whether the plant was operational.
Four more plants are likely to be installed by April 30, the Ministry informed the SC. For the remaining three plants, paperwork remains incomplete as of yet.
Site clearance for one PSA plant was received by the Health Ministry on April 19, while the proposed sites at Raja Harish Chandra Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital were found to be “unsuitable”.
“At least the blame is on both Central government hospitals and Delhi government hospitals,” said the Delhi High Court as lawyers for the Delhi government and the Centre blamed each other for delays in setting up oxygen plants.

According to the affidavit, 162 PSA plants have been sanctioned under PM CARES fund at a cost of Rs 202 crore across the country. The government is paying only for the installation of plants, while the centralised pipeline for oxygen has to be set up and paid for by hospitals.

However, the work had stalled while Covid-19 numbers were in control earlier this year.
“In January and February, Covid cases came down, so work slowed down. We are working on this,” Joint Secretary (Health) Nipun Vinayak said to the Delhi High Court
https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/...
.

Both Central+State governments are equally responsible at least based on the JS statements!

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Funds allocation is way faster than actual ground work it seems. wink

PS: Finally “PMCares” got a *right cause to be *used.

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