Mumbai: In an effort to assist industry staff take care of the second wave of COVID in Mumbai, filmmaker Aditya Chopra has launched the Yash Chopra Saathi Initiative.
The initiative, named after Aditya’s father, the late filmmaker Yash Chopra, goals at offering support to daily wage earners of the film industry.
“The pandemic has pushed the backbone of our industry, the daily workers, to a breaking point, and YRF wants to support as many workers and their families who are in need due to the loss of livelihood. Yash Chopra Saathi Initiative is aiming to provide support to the pandemic-hit workers of our industry who we urgently need to focus on,” Akshaye Widhani, senior vice-president, Yash Raj Films (YRF), says.
As half of the initiative, ladies and senior citizen staff will get Rs. 5000. In affiliation with an NGO known as Youth Feed India, ration kits can even be distributed to staff with a household of 4 for your entire month. The staff have to apply for this profit by their web site.
Aditya was additionally not too long ago within the information for interesting to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to let YRF vaccinate 30,000 daily staff.
