The country is now in its fifth phase of lockdown. While this lockdown is essential to break the chain of the virus, but because of it, thousands of people across the country have been stuck in various parts. Most of them have no food and no family around them. They are desperate to reunite with their families and get home.
The plight of the migrant workers etched in visuals of people walking alone, or with their families, friends or in groups from one city to another has been constant during the lockdown. While state governments have been making efforts to help the migrants go back home with the buses and Shramik trains, it is actor Sonu Sood, efforts that have been talked by one all. Sood is one of Bollywood’s well-known actor has personally taken up the mantle and has been transporting them back to their home town.
So far the actor arranged buses to states like Karnataka, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with the required permissions. He has also set up a toll-free helpline where people can call - 18001213711 and ask for Sonu Sood's help. He has shared that his team will be answering the call and arranging the necessary help. Even Governor of the state, Bhagat Singh Koshyari has complimented Sood for his Nobel deed.
While talking exclusively to Mumbai Live, Sonu Sood said, "I think God has chosen me to do this, my family is working on this and my wife is making a list of every passenger, I am glad that God has chosen me for this work"
He says that he will not rest till he has managed to send all the migrants back to their native place.
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