Donations for the slain Mumbai Police Constables' Families during the recent terror attacks

As you are all aware, quite a lot of lives were lost during the recent Mumbai terror attacks which also included some policemen. While the high ranked officials are generally well off, we all are aware that the constables usually are not.

Impressed by the suggestion of one of my cricket team members who suggested the idea of pooling in some donations and donate it to the families of these constables' families directly. The idea of handing over the amount directly to the families would not only avoid reduction in the amount due to the overheads of the NPOs but also its misuse. A cousin of mine has volunteered to personally hand over the check to the families.The list of the policemen who lost their lives are listed on http://www.mumbaipolice.org/ and we were thinking of donating at least Rs 10,000/- for each of the constables' families. Hence the target is to raise at least $1600; anything more is good too.

Please do email/call me if you wish to donate for this noble cause. Please note that this fund raiser is not through CricBay and hence the donations are not tax deductible.

List of donations Thus Far: (udated 18 Jan 09)

#--Name-------------Organisation--------------Amount($)
1---Girish Bangalore-----Nemesis-----------------------100
2---Mani Perialwar------Chargers CC--------------------20
3---Mehul Patel---------Aryans CC----------------------50
4---Ram Chinchali-------Aryans CC---------------------100
5---Sunil Shenoy--------Aryans/BayKon----------------50
6---Pushkar Chhajed----Aryans CC----------------------51
7---Raviraj Kini----------BayKon------------------------51
8---Shiv Meramajal------Mavericks---------------------50
9---Rajas Shirsat--------Aryans CC----------------------50
10--Seshu Shenoy-------Aryans CC----------------------175
11--Aravind Kandala----Hurricanes----------------------101
12--Roshan Shanbhag---Aryans CC----------------------51
13--Manish Nadkarni---Weekend Cricket Warriors------51
14--Ajit Apte-----------Aryans CC----------------------50
15--Ashok Rao----------BayKon------------------------50
16--Kirit Dawda--------Hattrickers---------------------75
17--Manav Alagh-------Aryans CC----------------------50
18--Sadanand Morbad--CricBay------------------------51
19--Amchis CC----------Amchis CC--------------------50
20--Naresh Nayak------Burlingame CC-----------------50
21--Srivats Srinivas-----Aryans CC--------------------100
22--Balachandra Kamath--BayKon----------------------25
23--Parminder Gill-------Aryans CC-------------------51
24--XI Invincibles------XI Invincibles----------------100
25--Pavan Pai----------BayKon----------------------50
26--Chintan Vaishnav---------------------------------25
27--Anoop Rao----------------------------------------100
28--Megastars----------Megastars-------------------120
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Total------------------------------------------------$ 1847
We now have achieved the minimum target we had of $1600 ..... Thanks a ton for all the contributors. In case any more donations are being sent, please email me at the earliest so that the list can be updated.

Updates

Special thanks to Mr. Abhay Rao, GM Product engineering at e-emphasys, Mumbai for volunteering to collecting the addresses of the Police Constables and handing over the amount to their families. We would also like to thank Mr. Rao for generating funds from his friends and family in India to add to this pool.

06/01/2009
Amount transferred to Indian account at a conversion rate of Rs 48.18 per dollar (1627*48.18 ~ Rs 78,400)

16/01/2009
(Abhay) Have got the addresses of the 6 off the 8 policemen. Also, collected about Rs 15,000 towards the fund.

18/01/2009
Rs 80,000/- transferred to Mr.Abhay's account

25/01/2009
Received $100 from Anoop Rao. Will be transferring the amount in the next couple of days; in case there are more contributions.

02/04/2009

• Megastars have committed for a contribution of $120. Will be sending Rs 11,000/- (corresponsing to the last 2 contributions) tonight to Mumbai.
• Also, have received a mail from Abhay from Mumbai indicating that Approximately Rs87,000/- was collected from his friends and relatives which brings the total amount to Rs 1,78,000/- (Abhay's email would be posted here in the evening)
• We would like to close the collection of donations at this stage and Abhay would be visiting the families of the police constables starting tomorrow and handing over the amount.

Abhays' mail dated 04 Feb
Friends
I am glad to inform you that the collection has ended and from tomorrow I commence distribution. I shall go to each family and hand them over a amount in cash of 21500 per family of a total collection of Rs 172000/- i.e. a total collection of about $3440. Thanks everyone.

The names of the contributors are as follows. (in additions to the ones on the blog spot of Sunil)
P Seenivasan - 30th dec 08 - 5000
Suryanarayana - 3rd jan 09 - 5000
Pooja Natekar - 9th jan 09 - 2500
B P L narasimhan - 11th jan 09 - 1000
From Sunil Shenoy - 19th jan 09 - 80000
Vijay Subramaniam - 20th jan - 3000
Ajay Rao - 22nd jan - 5000
Archana Warudi - 25th jan - 1000
Tarun Singh - 24th jan - 2001
montu (satish sahoo) - 24th jan - 5000
Ajays friend Yatendra Shah - 24th jan - 5000
additional from sunil - 26th jan 5000
abhay rao - 26th jan - 22498
Presumed jeevan reddy - 5000
Raghu Sukuru - 5000
Ramanathan - 5001
S Ramesh - 10000
Milind Bagade - 5000
Total : 172000

Please inform me if these is any discrepancy. Sometimes it is difficult to track a entry based on bank entries. I have also attached a copy of the cover note which shall accompany every donation which mentions all names. I am not pressing for a signature as I dont think this will seem appropriate. 2 addresses are pending but I am confident of getting them. Once again, thanks all.

Regards Abhay