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The filmmakers have agreed to raise the amount of money they will spend on new apartments for each family from $30,000 to $50,000, a Jai Ho trustee and Rubina's father, Rafiq Qureshi, both told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Family members had worried that $30,000 would not be enough to secure decent housing in Mumbai's pricey real estate market.
In addition, the filmmakers have agreed to give each family a stipend of $130 a month and a lump sum of $3,000 a year to support the children while they are in school, the trustee and Qureshi said.
That is substantially more than any of their neighbors in Garib Nagar make, where many bring home $4 a day as auto rickshaw drivers and maids.
"We are trying our best to finalize things as soon as possible," Jai Ho trustee Nirja Mattoo said Saturday. She said representatives of the trust took Azhar's family to look at a few nearby apartments earlier this week.
City authorities have also promised the children and some of their neighbors new homes.
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