₹8100 crores to provide 30% viability gap funding instead of the current 20% to boost private sector investment in social sector infrastructure creation under Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Soon after the announcement, health ministry reached out to Department of Economic Affairs indicating that viability gap funding has been an unattractive proposal for the private sector, and that there was a dire need of hospitals in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities for covid-19 treatment.The viability gap funding is especially focussed at expanding the Centre’s flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) that provides hospitalisation cover of up to ₹5 lac per family per year to over 10 crore poor and the deprived people in.