Head to Chennai if you want to buy Audi , BMW for Rs 2 lakhs

The floods ravaging the city of Chennai in December resulted in many people losing their lives, homes, property and businesses. There were many who also ended up losing their cars in these floods caused by the worst rains the area has seen in 100 years.

Thousands of cars in the flood-hit areas ended up sitting in more than three feet of water for numerous days, damaging them badly. Insurance companies are now flooded with claims from car owners whose vehicles were 'damaged' in the floods.

Luxury cars from BMW, Audi, Porsche, Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and others that were rendered useless in the floods, are now being auctioned off at throw-away prices. A report in Hindustan Times quotes the COO of cardekho.com’s auctions division Abhishek Gautam, saying that a 2011 Audi A4 was sold for just Rs 3 lakh. The Porsche sports coupe was going for between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 15 lakh. Due to the floods, high-end cars are now being sold at nearly 40% of their ex-showroom price, and they have takers too.

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According to another report, a BMW 3 series was up for auctioning for Rs 6 lakh, a 2015 Audi A4 was up at a starting price of Rs 3.4 lakh, and a 2012 Porsche Cayenne was going for peanuts at Rs 5 lakh.

The report also quotes copart.in, an online auctioneer, which had received requests for selling off flood-damaged vehicles. The line-up of flood-damaged vehicles includes those manufactured in 2014 and 2015 too. It is likely that the auction will go on for the next few months. Insurance companies have received insurance claims for nearly 30,000 cars, out of which 10,000 have been declared "beyond repair" so far.

Select Auto Mart which has about 10,000 flood-affected cars have already sold about 5,000 cars in 20 days, a report from a leading newspaper said.

This auction is drawing people in flocks from all over the country, with people coming in from Gujarat, New Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab.

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How Paytm, Airtel, Zomato, BSNL, Ola Cab's are pitching in to help Chennai flood victims

E-commerce platform Paytm, cellular companies
BSNL, Airtel Cab Company Ola and restaurant search and discovery service Zomato have come forward to help the victims of Chennai floods.



● Paytm :-



E-commerce platform Paytm, which mostly
focuses on mobile recharge and e-wallet facilities, has taken a centrestage with its 'Stay
Safe Chennai' initiative.

In its blog, Stay Safe Chennai ,

the company says: "If you would like to recharge anyone's mobile number so that they can remain connected during this tough time, please call us at 18001030033 and share the mobile number. We will recharge it with Rs 30 worth of talk-time, free of cost."


● Airtel :-




As incessant rains have disrupted life in Chennai,
the latest company to help out stranded people
in the flood-affected areas is telecom giant Airtel.

The company has announced a few measures to facilitate communication between people in the region.

Airtel has announced both auto-approval of
talktime credit of up to Rs 30 and free credit of
10 minutes for Airtel-to-Airtel calling for all prepaid customers. The facility is valid for two
days.

Apart from free talktime recharge, Airtel is also
offering 50MB of mobile data - valid for 2 days free of cost for all its prepaid mobile customers.


● BSNL :-



Public-owned telecommunications company
BSNL is also doing its bit to help out Chennai.

Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that there will be no charges on BSNL
bills for one week, starting today.


People also tweeted out in support of the
initiative.


● Zomato :-



Restaurant search and discovery service Zomato
has launched a meal plan for Chennai flood victims.

Zomato has come up with a customised
offer called 'Meal for Flood Relief'. Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal took to Twitter and announced the initiative.

According to the offer, if someone buys a meal
for Chennai flood victims, Zomato will add one
to it and send two meals instead of one where
people are stranded.

Also, the price of the meal is quite economical.
A meal for two costs Rs 100, while a meal for
four is priced at Rs 400.

A lot of restaurants in Chennai, including Adyar
Ananda Bhavan, Prems Graama Bhojanam,
Kolapasi, Dindigul Thalappakati, Nawab Sheikh
Biryani, Meat and Eat, and more have come
forward to participate in Zomato's initiative.


● Ola Cab's :-



In November, Taxi operator Ola deployed boats
along with professional rowers to rescue people
in the waterlogged areas to safer places.

The boats were manned by professional rowers
and also fishermen to rescue people and to
provide food and drinking water free-of-cost

taxi service jumps into the rescue with professional rowers and boats Also, they were equipped with two rowers, sufficient umbrellas and could ferry between five to nine people in a trip.

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