Chennai is currently witnessing the heaviest downpour in over a century which has completely crippled the city’s power supply, transportation and left people stranded without food and shelter. While relief efforts are underway, companies like Airtel, Ola and Zomato have come forward to help make things a little easier for the people of Chennai.
Today, Zomato’s co-founder and CEO, Deepinder Goyal tweeted that the company would be giving out meals in the city’s submerged areas. The ‘Meal for Flood relief’ delivery which is supported by seven restaurants including Katti Roll, Adyar Ananda Bhavan and Nawab Sheikh Biryani and promises fulfilment of orders within 30 minutes.
15,000 meals bought by our users for #Chennai. Zomato adds to it to make it 30,000. Let's all help get to 100k – we can do this.
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) December 2, 2015
Goyal has said that for every meal that is bought, Zomato would contribute one from their side.
Airtel too has announced that it would be chipping in by making sure that their customers stranded in Chennai were able to communicate with an automatic approval of talk time credit for prepaid users, free credit of 50 MB and free credit of 10 minutes for Airtel to Airtel calls.
In the wake of #ChennaiFloods , we’re taking the following measures to facilitate constant & seamless communication. pic.twitter.com/acEU19REpT
— airtel India (@airtelindia) December 2, 2015
Air carrier Indigo’s CEO Aditya Ghosh also tweeted that cancellation charges and change fees for customers affected by cancellations would be waived off. Flight operations to and from Chennai have been badly affected because of the weather and the city’s airport flooding.
@IndiGo6E will waive cancellation charges and change fees for customers affected by cancellations due to Chennai floods
— Aditya Ghosh (@AdityaGhosh6E) December 1, 2015
Taxi aggregator Ola, which had in last month’s floods announced ‘Ola Boats’, to ferry people to safety and distribute essential supplies like food and drinking water in collaboration with Chennai’s fire and rescue department, has said that it has created safety zones in the central and northern parts of the city. The company says that people will be able to access food and medication in these zones that are being set up by a mix of employees and drivers.
Our prayers are with everyone in #Chennai.For assistance, head to the nearest OLASafetyZone. Details:https://t.co/bz4oVwJVRc #GetSafeChennai
— OLA (@Olacabs) December 2, 2015
OLA Safety Zone 2: Usha Rani Marriage Hall, 202/1A, Devaraj Complex, S.Park St, Venkatapuram,Ambattur. Contact:9840641950 #GetSafeChennai
— OLA (@Olacabs) December 2, 2015
Ola has created OLASafetyZone in #Chennai. For further details check https://t.co/nNrtdceBjJ #GetSafeChennai
— Taxy (@Taxytheapp) December 2, 2015
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