#KeepChennaiMoving: After free ride, Uber collects donations for free from Bengalureans!

Bengaluru/Chennai, Dec 5: While upping its ante in Chennai, the US-based taxi-hailing company Uber on Saturday, Dec 5, launched a noble initiative of collecting donations for the victims of Chennai floods, from Bengalureans.

#KeepChennaiMoving was trending on the micro-blogging site Twitter, all throughout the day.

In a statement, Uber stated:

"We've seen Chennai come together to #KeepChennaiMoving these past few days and we want to do our bit to help. Today, through the uberAID option in the app, between 9 am - 1 pm - you will be able to request a car to come to your door and collect supplies that you wish to donate.

We have partnered with Practo to seamlessly connect your donations and deliver them to Chennai - where help is needed the most. Bangalore, let's help to #KeepChennaiMoving."

Here are some tweets that show the humongous response by Bengalureans to provide aid to their neigbouring state:

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On Tuesday, Nov 17, taxi operator Ola had deployed boats along with professional rowers to rescue people in the waterlogged areas to safer places. [Chennai rains: Ola provides boat services in water-logged areas]

So far, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and armed forces have rescued more than 28,000 people and the personnel were now more engaged in relief work as need for rescue efforts has come down.

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