NDTV and Coca-Cola 'Support My School' to host a 6 hour Live Telethon with Sourav Ganguly and Ranveer Singh

NDTV, Coca-Cola and UN-Habitat will once again come together with campaign ambassador Sourav Ganguly to support the 6 hour TELETHON co-hosted by Bollywood celebrity Ranveer Singh. It will be aired LIVE across all channels on the NDTV network on Sunday, November 29, 2015.

A host of prominent personalities including Heads of States like Anandiben Patel (CM, Gujarat), Harish Rawat (CM, Uttarakhand), Bollywood actors Varun Dhawan, Parineeti Chopra, Sports personalities like Sunil Gavaskar, Sunil Chettri along with renowned industrialists such as NR Narayana Murthy (Founder Infosys), Naina Lal Kidwai (Chairperson HSBC), Kalpana Morparia (Chairperson JPMorgan) and more, along with host Vikram Chandra, NDTV's Group CEO will take centre-stage to reach out to millions of viewers to generate maximum funds for the cause.

Delighted with the tremendous response received for the initiative previously, Venkatesh Kini, President, Coca-Cola India and Southwest Asia said “Support My School has grown from being an initiative to a campaign that has more than 100 partners in 23 states across India impacting nearly 200,000 children in 600 schools. By 2017 we wish to take this initiative to another level.”

Commenting on the campaign, Vikram Chandra, NDTV’s Group CEO said, “This multi partner campaign has seen tremendous response from across the country and is growing at a rate which will soon help us reach our next goal. We are hoping to see a bigger and better participation this year, which will result in reaching our goal faster.”