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Hindi film industry celebrities have been pitching in to help migrant workers return
home. After Sonu Sood’s stellar effort to help workers go back to their home towns, it
has now emerged that actor Amitabh Bachchan has arranged three flights so that about
500 workers could go home to Varanasi. The actor had earlier sent back workers to
various places in Uttar Pradesh via road.
A Mid Day report quoted a source as saying, “Everything is being done with utmost
discretion as Bachchanji doesn’t want it to be publicised. He was moved by the plight
of the migrant workers and decided to help them. He has chartered the Indigo Airlines’
Varanasi-bound flight that is scheduled to depart on Wednesday morning. The 180
migrants scheduled to travel on the morning flight have been asked to report to the
airport at 6 am. The initial plan was to send them home by train, but the logistics didn’t
work out.”
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