Online taxi service Ola also came forward to help those struck in rains in Chennai. The company also explained on Twitter that the it had been “ferrying people out from water-logged areas” in the city after vehicles couldn’t access flooded roads.
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Restaurants like Kolapasi, Prems Graama Bhojanam, Adyar Ananda Bhavan, Dindigul Thalappakatti, Nawaab Sheikh Biriyani, Meat & Eat and Katti Roll is providing meals for two people at Rs 100, meals for four at Rs 200 and meals for 100 at Rs 5000. Among the support, the company offered free talktime, free data and extended other facilities, free of cost.
Residents can call on 18001030033 and share the mobile number that they want to get topped-up. The initiative was led by fifteen volunteers from the organisation, and its partners. Under the scheme, the company will buy and deliver a meal for the flood victims for every meal a customer buys anywhere in India. In addition, free 100MB mobile data is being offered to all customers with data enabled handsets.
It has also announced free of cost credit of 10 minutes of Airtel-to-Airtel calling for prepaid mobile customers with a validity of 2 days, media statement said.
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As unprecedented rains and floods in Chennai have disrupted normal life and restricted people’s movement from homes, the country’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, on Wednesday said it is facilitating some measures for customers.
