Superstar Salman Khan has once again pledged to offer monetary help to 25,000 daily-wage earners of the film industry, the Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE) said. According to B.N. Tiwari, president of the FWICE, Ashoke Dubey, general secretary, Gangeshwar Srivastav, treasurer, and chief advisors Sharad Shelar and Ashoke Pandit, “Salman Khan’s manager asked us to send details of workers from the Federation. The actor will be crediting Rs. 1,500 in the bank accounts of each of these industry workers.” Ashoke Dubey concluded, “He had extended similar help even last year when COVID-19 first hit India.”
Tiwari revealed that Netflix and The Film & Television Producers Guild of India Ltd. will distribute a total of Rs. 3.5 crore among 7,000 wage workers. They will transfer Rs. 5,000 in the accounts of each of 7,000 cine workers. “We have sent them the list of the workers,” Tiwari and Ashok Dubey explained. FWICE added that it would like to thank Manish Goswami and Siddharth Roy Kapur for the same.
The Yash Chopra Foundation, averred B.N. Tiwari, was committed to constantly and relentlessly being a support system to the Hindi film industry and its workers who had been an integral part of the industry. The Foundation was doing a great deal for the cine workers who had attained the age of 60 years and who were affiliated with four unions viz. the Allied Mazdoor Union, the Junior Artistes Association, the Women Artistes Association, and the Generator Vanity Van Attendants Association, all of which were affiliated to the FWICE. The Yash Chopra Foundation will give Rs. 5,000 to these senior workers and also food items for a month.
The FWICE president lamented the callous behaviour of the state and central governments, saying that there had been no help from them for daily wage earners of the film industry.
