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NRI donates Rs 4 lakh to Rohtak padman

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Sunit Dhawan
Tribune News Service

Rohtak, May 7

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Raj Aggarwal, a USA-based Indian philanthropist, sent financial aid of Rs 4 lakh to social activist Jagdeep Jugnu.   

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Jugnu is working for the betterment of underprivileged children and slum-dwellers at Rohtak. 

A news report by The Tribune mentioned that Jugnu has been arranging and distributing sanitary pads, soap bars, face masks, and hand sanitisers, etc. to them amid the COVID-19 era. 

“After reading the report in the online edition of The Tribune, Aggarwal ji  called me up, and asked about our social-service activities. Today, he sent Rs 4 lakh to my account for which we are thankful to the donor and the newspaper,” said Jugnu.   

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Aggarwal’s family runs a voluntary organisation named, “Viklang Sewa Kender” in Ambala Cantt, where the people who have lost their legs get artificial limbs free of cost. 

He has also been providing financial aid to the needy.

Jugnu—who runs Path Society a voluntary social organisation—arranges and supplies 400 to 500 packs of sanitary pads every month to the girls and women.

Jugnu and his wife Sunita also run an informal training school named “Abhinav Toly” for the underprivileged children—where they teach the children and also train them in music, dance, drama, photography and beauty-grooming etc.

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