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NEW DELHI: Students from across the country have come together to organise a virtual concert in partnership with KVN Foundation to help raise money for the people affected by the lockdown imposed across the country to check the spread of coronavirus.The funds from the concert, scheduled to be held on April 19 at 6 pm, will be utilised to feed daily wage workers, underprivileged and homeless children and frontline workers amid the lockdown.This unique web music and dance concert will showcase up-and-coming student talented artists, such as along Aarsha Mukherji, Trina Dutt, Mia Makhija, Shriya Rao, Thaniya Reddy and many others. The concert will be streamed live on YouTube and PAYTM Site, hosted by celebrated anchor and Stand up Comedian Danish Sait."This current situation has made us students, realize that social distancing and self-quarantine is a necessity, but also a privilege. Seeing countless articles about the alarming number of people starving due to the lockdown has truly opened our eyes to the severity of this situation," the students said.The idea of this concert came from a few students of Bengaluru's Mallya Aditi School in Bengaluru. The initiative is being organised by three Bengaluru-based entrepreneurs — Juggy Marwaha (executive MD, JLL India), Venkat K Narayana (CEO, Prestige Group) and K Ganesh (promoter - Bigbasket & Portea Medical)."This is the time to pay back to our society ... these students across India are displaying their large heart by giving back to their lesser privileged peers of our society...” said Marwaha.The initiative, Ganesh said, will help create awareness and enable more people to extend help to the needy"Feedmycitylive is a platform that will help us create awareness and reach out to more needy people of our country...It is heartwarming to see our future adults take such interest in social causes at such a young age," he added.The foundation has set up centres in various cities such as Mumbai, Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru under the banner of FeedMyCity and aims to deliver cooked food to the people in need.So far the foundation has fed around one million people in five cities and plans to feed over 3 million people by the end of the lockdown. Each meal box costs Rs 30."By raising money, we hope to alleviate some of the burdens of this extremely uncertain and difficult time. We hope that through music, we can bring about some relief to people, so please join us as we attempt to change lives!" said the organisers of the concert which is being supported by gaana.com (Times Network) and PayTM.