Bangalore: Indian cricket team skipper Rahul Dravid on Monday urged for taking steps to prevent re-occurrence of recent serial bomb blast incident that rocked Mumbai taking the lives of many and left scores of people injured.
Expressing his anguish over the incident Dravid said that ''some concrete steps should be taken to see that such incident do not re-occur''.
Dravid was speaking at 'Mumbai Not Out' -- a charity dinner to raise funds for the Mumbai blast victims organised by Vyas Giannetti Creative.
Thanking the corporates who contributed to the fund, Dravid said that the response to the fund raising for the affected in Mumbai blast has proved that Indians would fight against any such terrorist attacks.
“People of Mumbai have proved that they couldn’t be mowed by those who used mindless terror,” he said.
Dravid and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar presented a cheque for Rs 20,15,000 to Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund.
Sachin, Ajit Agarkar and Ramesh Powar also released wristbands with 'Mumbai Not Out' written on it. Funds was raised through the sale of donor tables to Corporate houses like Aditya Birla Group, Birla Sun Life Financial services, Dimexon Diamonds Limited, Star TV, Tata Group and TV Today Network.
Each donor were presented with the special frame containing a bat and autographs of the Team India Players.
Besides the Sri Lanka bound team, trainer Gregory Allen King bio mechanist Ian Frazer, KSCA President Ram Prasad and Secretary Brijesh Patel were among those present at the dinner.
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