MUMBAI: A devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba from the U.S. has donated a whopping sum of Rs 600 crore to the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba mentioned this while addressing a large gathering of his devotees on the occasion of Janmasthami at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, said a press release.

He said this sum will be deposited in the corpus fund of the trust and would be utilised for the running of Sri Sathya Sai institutes of higher medical sciences and educaitonal institutes situated at Puttaparthi, Bangalore and elsewhere. Besides, an institute for mother and child care will also be set up at Bangalore.

The trust incurs an expenditure of Rs 6 crore per month in providing free education and medicare. Since the inception of a super speciality hospital in Puttaparthi in November 1990, over 12,000 surgeries have been performed there. In the Bangalore superspeciality hospital, which was established in January 2001, over 1,500 surgeries have been performed.

In Andhra Pradesh, over Rs 300 crores have been spent by the trust for providing drinking water to 750 villages. An underprivileged family is given a free house and Rs 1 lakh.