The Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund provides required treatments to the distressed people affected by the major natural calamities like flood, drought, fire accident etc, and it also provides t...
The Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund provides required treatments to the distressed people affected by the major natural calamities like flood, drought, fire accident etc, and it also provides the financial assistance to the needy individuals for their trea tment of major diseases. This fund depends upon budgetary allocation provided by the Government of Odisha and Voluntary donation received from the general people and several organizations related to social responsibility. The Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) has been established with the objective to enable the poor and indigent persons of the state for various purposes lite treatment of major / serious ailments such as cardiac disease, kidney transplant, cancer etc, for rehabilitation of such persons etc. The CMRF also provides immediate relief to families of those killed in natural calamities like flood, drought, cyclone, earthquake and also in certain man-made calamities. Financial assistance / ex-gratia is also provided to the victims / next of the kin of the deceased victims of major road accidents, riots etc. Not only inside the state, the Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund has also provided financial relief to the people affected by tragic / devastating natural calamities outside the State / Country. []