I think CNN doesn't know WTF it's talking about. Do the quake victims want $$$ and Euros to eat now or IMMEDIATE aid in terms of food, water, tents, blankets, medicines, casualty evac etc? It costs Rs 1 Lakh per hour for a C-17 Globemaster, Rs 150,000 per hour for an IL-76, Rs 80,000 for a C-130 and Rs 30,000 per hour for a MI-17. How many hours have there planes and choppers logged for rushing aid and evacuation from and to Nepal? There have been more than a hundred sorties so far! How much does that cost?
Add to that all the aid in terms of tons of food, water, tents, blankets, mobile hospitals, medicines, manpower, engineering and earth moving equipment, and so on and how many $$$ does that amount to? Millions!
What is required immediately is not $$$ but material aid on ground. Rehabilitation and reconstruction come later when those $$$ would be required, for which India will be giving $10 million as initial grant for reconstruction. More will follow later. All this $$$ aid at this juncture is not worth a fig. It will be helpful only later during reconstruction/rehab.