Claim: The Central Government allocated funds to the States on 05 January 2021 from the PM CARES fund, but the States failed to install the required oxygen plants.
Fact-check: This post misleads people by blaming only States for the delay in installing the PSA Oxygen plants - FACTLY
Verdict: the pm cares fund trust has allocated rs.201.58 crores for the installation of 162 dedicated psa medical oxygen generation plants to the central medical supply store  , not to the states. the responsibility of establishing the plants lies with the cmss which is a part of the central government. the routine operations and maintenance are to be looked after by the hospitals/states. if it was the failure of only certain states , then the delay in installing the oxygen plants might have been restricted to only those states. but, as of 18 april 2021, only 33 out of the 162 sanctioned oxygen plants were installed in the whole country. hence the claim made in the post is misleading.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Akhil Reddy
Date published: 2021-04-26T13:17:17