Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has fulfilled a promise made during his ‘to help manual scavengers by personally arranging machines for them.
“At the NDTV Cleanathon ‘Banega Swachh India’, seeing the inhuman plight of the manual scavenger, I had committed to buy 50 machines for them. Today I fulfilled that promise! 25 small individual machines and one large truck machine gifted to BMC,” he said on his social media platform,.
In a letter dated November 24, and addressed to the Manual Scavengers Association (MSA) and the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the actor said he wanted to do something to prevent manual scavengers from physically and manually going down the manholes and sewer drainages. “My contribution was to prevent the de-humanising work of these scavengers and to give them the respect and dignity in society” Amitabh Bachchan said.