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UP targets Rs 1,000 cr corpus in recently created Covid Care Fund

CM Yogi Adityanath exhorts private companies for CSR funding

Yogi Adityanath
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UP CM Yogi Adityanath | Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh government is targetting a corpus of Rs 1,000 crore in its recently instituted Covid Care Fund to contain the spread of the pandemic.

The dedicated fund has been created in addition to the existing UP Chief Minister Distress Relief Fund to expend on medical equipment, testing kits, hospital infrastructure, telemedicine, health education, personal protection equipment (PPE), masks etc focussed around coronavirus.

CM Yogi Adityanath has now appealed to all the state legislators to contribute Rs 1 crore and a month’s salary to the Covid Care Fund. He has also called upon for generous contributions from the general

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