The fund is also allotted to the people for treatment like cancer, kidney transplantation, heart surgery etc.
The fund was first consolidated during the time of the first prime minister of republic of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
Thus to support the displaced people from Pakistan Jawaharlal Nehru created a fund collected from the public in January 1948.
From the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund, the construction of one multipurpose cyclone shelter each in Kerala and Lakshdweep was approved.
2.24 crore, the construction of the first cyclone shelter in Vadakara, Kerala, has been finished and turned over to the local government.