New Delhi | Technology based company Google on Tuesday announced that it will donate $1 million (Rs. 7 crore) to the relief and restoration work in the flood-affected Kerala.
Addressing the audience at Google for the India event, Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Southeast Asia and India said that “Google.org and Googlers will contribute $1 million to the relief work in Kerala”. Earlier tech giant Apple also contributed nearly 7 crores for the relief work in Kerala.
Anandan further added that the Google Crisis Response team has launched several measures to help victims of Kerala floods, among other measures, it activated the “person finder” tool that fetched 22,000 records.
In a devastating flood in Kerala in 13 of the 14 districts in the state more than 400 people have died since June 2018 while 4 lakh people are forced to stay in relief camps. The Central government had announced a package of 500 crores for the relief and rescue work in Kerala.
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