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Akshay Kumar's Idea Gets Life: Web Portal To Donate Money To Martyred Jawans Launched By Govt

by The Daily Eye Team April 18 2017, 2:43 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, about three months back,conceived an idea for general public to donate money to the families of the martyrs of central paramilitary forces who get killed in the line of duty in Naxal affected areas, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. He discussed the idea with Union home ministry officials, who then initiated the plan with a team of expert. On Sunday, while celebrating CRPF Valour Day, a web portal called 'BharatKeVeer' , where people can donate up to Rs 15 lakh to family of a martyred jawan or officer of CAPFs, was launched at Vigyan Bhawan by home minister Rajnath Singh in the presence of Akshay Kumar.

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OP Srivastava is a career banker. His first feature documentary, Life in Metaphors, won the National Award for Best Biopic in 2015. In 2019, his first book, Life in Metaphors: Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, was released. Followed by Banking on Technology (2020), Krishna Calling (2021) and Pillars of Parallel Cinema in April, 2022. He also runs a not-for-profit initiative, ‘Oorjaa’, for making and propagating ‘Cinema for a Cause’. In February 2023, he completed a fiction film ‘Banwari Ki Amma’, which was written, directed and produced by him.

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