TOI-Nagpur Heroes nominee donates Rs 3.06 lakh

NAGPUR: The Times Of India’s Nagpur Heroes nominee and proprietor of Ashmi Road Carrier Private Limited & Ashmi Logistics Pyare Khan has donated Rs3.06 lakh in PM Cares fund, which has been setup to aid the citizens of India affected by the coronavirus. Khan has handed over the cheque to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari.
Khan, who started his career by driving an autorickshaw and now owns a fleet of 250 trailers, is also providing cooked meal to police personnel on duty and truck drivers who were stranded across the district due to lockdown.
Not only Khan, many other good samartians came forward and donated funds in both PM’s relief fund and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s CM relief fund to aid the citizens of Maharashtra affected by the disease.
According to a senior official from the district collectorate, Rs65.58 lakh was donated in chief minister Uddhav Thackrey relief fund for Coronavirus and the donors included Avinash Shegaonkar of Sai Mandir Trust who donated Rs31 lakh in CM’s relief fund. The other donors included Siraz Sheikh (Rs11 lakh), Baidhnath Ayurved Bhavan (Rs10lakh), Suruchi Masale (Rs5 lakh) and Ganpati Devasthan Adasa (Rs5 lakh), Malti Phadke (Rs 1lakh), Shri Haribhau Naik (Rs52,000), Sevashree Sai Cooperative Society (Rs51,000) among others.
MSEB Engineers Cooperative Society also handed over a cheque of Rs11 lakh for the purpose to district guardian minister Nitin Raut.
People from the city also contributed over Rs25 lakh towards PM Narendra Modi’s relief fund and the donors include Suruchi Masale, who contributed Rs20 lakh, Dr Kamal Pugliya (Rs 1lakh) among others.