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Akshay Kumar Offers The Best Way To Honour The Jawans On Republic Day, Watch Video

Akshay Kumar Offers The Best Way To Honour The Jawans On Republic Day, Watch Video

by The Daily Eye Team January 27 2017, 3:08 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 51 secs

As the country is gearing up to celebrate 68th Republic Day on January 26, here's one actor who is urging people to lend support to the men in uniform. Akshay Kumar took to Twitter to share a heartfelt message through a video.As the country is gearing up to celebrate 68th Republic Day on January 26, here’s one actor who is urging people to lend support to the men in uniform. Akshay Kumar took to Twitter to share a heartfelt message through a video. The actor wants to start a website or mobile app to assist jawans financially. “The name of martyrs along with their bank account numbers will be listed on this website. If you want to help that jawan financially, you can directly donate a sum into their accounts. That account number will be deleted once the total deposited money accounts to Rs 15 lakh. In this way, family members of the jawan can directly use that money,” actor says in the video.

 

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PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.


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