{"id":27315,"date":"2021-05-11T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=27315"},"modified":"2021-05-11T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:17:22","slug":"sridhar-vembu-padma-shri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/sridhar-vembu-padma-shri\/","title":{"rendered":"This US-returned Software Tycoon who Received Padma Shri This Year is Serving 30,000 Free Meals Daily in Rural India during Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
The lockdown imposed across the state of Tamil Nadu, in a bid to counter the second wave of the pandemic, does impact the rural and urban poor the most.<\/strong> Billionaire Sridhar Vembu, who returned from the Bay Area to rural India, started serving the poor with over 6000 meals a day for free in April. The capacity of serving the needy whose livelihood is at the mercy of lockdown has increased up to 30,000 free meals a day this month. \u2018We\u2019re trying to ramp up to 100,000 meals a day because the demand is high,\u201d he tweeted this morning.<\/p>\n 54-year-old Sridhar Vembu, who returned from the US to India aiming to make a difference to his native village in Tamil Nadu, was awarded a Padma Shri, on the eve of the Republic Day 2021, for his distinguished service in trade and industry. Known for his \u2018simple living and high thinking\u2019 philosophy, he is a software tycoon with a net worth of USD 2.5 billion and the 59th<\/sup> richest Indian in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n