Madurai ambulance driver Pandi pays for last rites of unclaimed dead
Ambulance driver Pandi has given more than 400 unclaimed or destitute people a proper burial or cremation from his own earnings.
In Madurai, 35-year-old ambulance driver Pandi has spent three years recovering unclaimed bodies and taking them to government hospitals, ETV Bharat reported on 22 October 2026. He says he has moved about 5,000 bodies and paid for the final rites of over 400 people with no family or money. Each farewell costs Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000. He charges families who can pay, keeps his phone on round the clock and never asks for donations.
- Where
- Munichalai, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
- When
- Reported 22 October 2026; work over the past three years
- Who
- Pandi, 35, ambulance driver
- Source
- ETV Bharat
