NLS'ites raise Rs 40L, target 10 flights & 1800 migrants, Nalsar alumns also start drive
NLSIU Bangalore alumni have raised more than Rs 40 lakh so far - half-way to their target of Rs 84 lakh - in an effort to book 10 flights in 3 weeks to take 1,800 migrants home, following their first successful air-bridge evacuation to Ranchi reported here and a second flight sponsored by AZB managing partner Ajay Bahl, and a third flight sponsored by Ascend International School in Mumbai, according to Bar & Bench.
Link to contribute to the NLSIU efforts is here: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-mission-aahan-vaahan
Nalsar Hyderabad alumni have also started a parallel crowdfunding drive, having raised more than Rs 16 lakh so far, to help in the lockdown migration crisis, as reported by Livelaw:
The alumni network of the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad (NALSAR) has taken up the task of transporting about 209 migrant workers, including children, back to their homes. … So far as the project initiated by the alumni of NALSAR is concerned, they are presently undertaking two projects: (1) Funding for transport by air from Bengaluru, Karnataka to Raipur, Chattisgarh; (2) Funding for transport by bus from Asind, Rajasthan to Chitrakoot, UP.
You can contribute here: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-foodshaala-foundation :
In the face of this humanitarian crisis, the NALSAR family - students and alumni - are stepping in to arrange transport for workers who are trying to get home through the quickest and most efficient means possible. Our civil society collaborators are working on the ground to ensure that those most in need are prioritised. In addition to travel, we are raising funds for food distribution, medical kits and sanitation packs for the workers in this predicament.
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Amazing work by lawyers from both universities, congratulations.
But all this makes me wonder whether from a macroscopic POV it is a good idea for private individuals to step in where the state has clearly failed, basically exonerating the government from its failings and giving them a carte blanch to fail again and not care about the poorest of society in their policy making. It is basically privatising social welfare, making this dependent on the charity of a few fortunate rich lawyers.
There is clearly suffering now that needs to be alleviated but maybe not alleviating it would have been the lesser of evils: why can the government not spend a measly couple of lacs from the PM Cares fund or other sources to organise some trains or flights, like lots of other normal countries are doing?
Why be such a naysayer @AnonymousLLB? People are in trouble and this is helping. Humanity comes first now, leave politics and all the other stuff aside for now. The crisis is too much for any government to handle and others don’t have 1.3 billion people to take care of!
@AnonymousLLB You may have a point that the government could do more but that doesn’t change the fact that thousands are suffering and a lot of partners and others have more money than they know what to do with. Isn’t it good they are spending it on charity rather than buying a new sports car?