Megastar Chiranjeevi is now at the forefront of all the charity activities of the

corona crisis.

He took the initiation to create a fund to help the daily wage workers in the
Telugu film industry who are hard hit by the shutting down of film shoots. He also
contributed Rs 1 crore donation to the fund.

Needless to say, Chiranjeevi is thanking each member of the industry who had
contributed to the fund through his Twitter handle and is also encouraging everyone
to do their bit of service.

Not just during this crisis, Chiranjeevi has actively been involving in resolving
various issues about the film industry and movie artistes’ association from some
months.

Dasari Narayana Rao had played such role of a big daddy in the industry for many
years.

After his demise, none came to take his position but Megastar Chiranjeevi who is
respected by all the current superstars and juniors is slowly stepping in. He is
now Tollywood’s unofficial ‘pedda’.

The monthly pension is all set to come handy for the poor who have been hit by
lockdown due to the coronavirus.

The AP government is getting ready to deliver the monthly-pensions despite the

coronavirus and the government being busy with the health issues.

The government had already released provisions for the poor, which are being
delivered through the fair price shops across the state.

The poor were given rice, dall and other basic required food material as they have
been staying home due to lockdown.

Now the pension, which would be delivered at the door step of the beneficiaries
across the state on April 1 would be coming as a greater relief.

The government plans to complete the distribution of pension in just two days all
over the 13 districts and had almost readied the volunteers to handle the job.

Panchayat Raj principal secretary Gopalakrishna Dwivedi had already reviewed the
arrangements for pension distribution with all the senior officials of the
department on Monday.

He had directed all the 2.60 lakh volunteers spread over 13 districts to get ready
with the gadgets to deliver the pensions at the door steps.

This time, the government had dropped the biometric and thumb impression
requirement of the 60 lakh beneficiaries to receive pensions due to corona.

The government had already geotagged the photographs of the beneficiaries and all
that the volunteers would have to do is to take a photograph of the beneficiary and
upload it to the site before handing over the pension.

The volunteers have already been engaged in coronavirus enumeration across the
state. The mechanism had come handy for the government to identify the foreign
visitors, foreign returned Telugus besides the positive cases.

The government would lay its hands on the suspects and positive cases in no time
only because of the presence of these volunteers, which had become a model in the
country, particularly in the hours of crisis like corona.