COVID-19: Vijay Deverakonda pledges Rs 1.30 crore for relief; explains plans in video

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, more and more stars are coming forward to help needy. celebrities of film industry have been doing ir bit in battle, by contributing to relief funds or coming with ir own initiatives. latest to join list is Vijay Deverakonda.

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Dear Comrade star shared that pandemic made him realise that he didn’t have required savings while handling expenses of his family and 35 employees. 

actor has committed Rs 1.30 crore to mission, to be divided into three categories, that he anunced via a video and on official website of Deverakonda Foundation. He divided it into two broad categeories, immediate requirement and future requirement. 

Arjun Reddy star is commiting Rs 1 cr for latter, to his youth employment programme, for which he shared that goal is to employ one lakh people. He shared how he shortlisted 50 people out of 650 applications in 2019 and trained m in various fields as per ir skill sets. Two also got jobs, and rest are also set to get jobs once pandemic is over, Viijay shared.

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Vijay is also starting a middle class fund of 25 lakh, for helping ‘middle class’ families like his. He revealed that one could register on website and his team will contact to help those by arranging essentials from nearest stores.  

His team is helping migrant labourers.Vijay also pledged Rs 5 lakh to Corona Criris Charity, that seeks to help daily w workers of Telugu industry. 

actor also stated that he was t looking at it as charity and also urged citizens to come forward to help. He also praised CM K Chandrashekhar Rao for providing food and or essentials to labourers.

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