Producers Guild of India, IFTPC and FWICE come together to support daily wage workers

The Producers Guild of India (Guild) and Indian Film & Television Producers Council (IFTPC) announced that they would partner with the Federation of  Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) to provide financial assistance to daily wage  workers in the industry who have been most impacted by the shutdown.

Producers Guild of India (Guild) and Indian Film & Television Producers Council (IFTPC)  had joined hands to set up a Relief Fund for daily wage workers affected by the  production shutdown owing to the COVID-19 epidemic.

In a significant development, the FWICE has come forward to support this fundraising  initiative of Guild and IFTPC by offering to set up a transparent and efficient mechanism  to disburse these funds to daily wage workers most impacted by the shutdown, especially those who have no other financial assistance or support available to them from any  other source, ensuring that the financial assistance will be made to daily wage workers  only through direct bank payments.

The first tranche of funds raised by Guild and IFTPC will be made available to FWICE for  disbursement to daily wage workers in the first week of April 2020, and both Guild and  IFTPC will aggressively continue their efforts to raise funds for this purpose.