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Telangana Ministers Launch Community Kitchen for 60,000 Students
Telangana ministers have started work on a large kitchen in Munagala.
It is expected to make breakfast for nearly 60,000 students each day.
The food will include milk and ragi porridge.
Singareni Collieries is contributing ₹9.60 crore to the kitchen.
Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka said welfare programmes help poor families improve their lives.
He disagreed with BRS leaders who said such programmes can make people dependent.
The ministers also checked progress on a new residential school and visited an irrigation project.
They asked officials to keep the school construction on schedule.
Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy laid the foundation for a community kitchen in Munagala, Suryapet district.
Singareni Collieries is contributing ₹9.60 crore to the project, which is intended to provide daily breakfast to nearly 60,000 students in 1,029 government schools and junior colleges.
The breakfast is to include milk and ragi porridge, with the kitchen designed for food preparation, packing, transport and distribution.
Bhatti Vikramarka described welfare schemes as investments in poor families and rejected BRS criticism that they create dependency.
The ministers also reviewed construction of the ₹200-crore Young India Integrated Residential School at Gaddipalli and inspected the Pulichinthala project.
- Who
- Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy.
- What
- They laid the foundation for a community kitchen intended to provide breakfast to nearly 60,000 students.
- Where
- Munagala, Suryapet district, Telangana.
- When
- Tuesday; the article does not give a calendar date.
- Why
- To provide students with nutritious breakfast and support their welfare and education.
Government’s view
BRS criticism
Effect of welfare schemes
Government’s view
Bhatti Vikramarka said welfare schemes are investments that can improve poor families’ financial condition and help them contribute to state development.
BRS criticism
He said BRS leaders had criticized the schemes on the grounds that they would make people dependent.
Continuation of Congress schemes
Government’s view
Bhatti Vikramarka cited free bus travel for women, free domestic electricity up to 200 units, and fine rice for ration cardholders as Congress government schemes.
BRS criticism
He questioned whether BRS, which said it expected to return to power, intended to stop those schemes; the article does not provide a direct BRS response to that question.
Key facts
- Project contribution
- ₹9.60 crore from Singareni Collieries
- Expected daily beneficiaries
- Nearly 60,000 students
- Institutions covered
- 1,029 government schools and junior colleges across Suryapet district
- Breakfast items mentioned
- Milk and ragi porridge
- Residential school project
- Young India Integrated Residential School at Gaddipalli; ₹200 crore
- Other site visit
- Pulichinthala project in Chinthalapalem mandal
- Insurance scheme announcement
- Bhatti Vikramarka said Indiramma Bheema, with ₹5 lakh coverage for every family, would be launched on Indira Gandhi Jayanthi.
Sources
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