Archive · 7 Oct 2026
Ministers Launch Munagala Kitchen as Bhatti Defends Student Breakfast
Two Telangana ministers started work on a large kitchen in Munagala.
It is planned to make breakfast for nearly 60,000 students.
The reports give slightly different numbers for how many schools or other institutions the kitchen will serve.
They say children will get milk and ragi porridge, though they describe the weekly schedule differently.
Bhatti Vikramarka said programmes that help poor families and students should be seen as investments, not freebies.
He also said the state plans to introduce family insurance with ₹5 lakh of protection in certain circumstances.
The ministers checked work on a residential school and visited an irrigation project.
They also discussed how the kitchen and school construction should progress.
Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy laid the foundation for a ₹9.6-crore centralised community kitchen in Munagala.
The kitchen is intended to provide breakfast to nearly 60,000 students; reports differ on whether it will serve 1,020 or 1,029 institutions.
One report says the district programme covers schools and junior colleges, while another describes 1,020 schools; Bhatti also said the statewide programme reaches nearly 27 lakh students six days a week.
Breakfast will include milk and ragi porridge, with modern facilities for preparation, packing, transport and distribution; the reports differ on the weekly schedule for milk and porridge.
Bhatti defended welfare schemes as investments rather than freebies, and the ministers also reviewed a ₹200-crore residential school project 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 centralised community kitchen intended to provide breakfast to nearly 60,000 students.
- When
- Tuesday; the articles do not specify the calendar date.
- Where
- Munagala, Suryapet district, Telangana.
- Why
- The government says the programme will provide students with nutritious breakfast and support their development.
Bhatti Vikramarka’s position
Criticism attributed to BRS leaders
Whether welfare schemes are investments or freebies
Bhatti Vikramarka’s position
Bhatti said welfare spending, including support for students and poor families, is an investment that can improve their finances and contribute to Telangana’s development.
Criticism attributed to BRS leaders
Bhatti said BRS leaders had criticized welfare schemes as making people dependent; the articles do not include a direct response from BRS.
Continuation of Congress programmes
Bhatti Vikramarka’s position
Bhatti cited free bus travel for women, free domestic electricity up to 200 units and fine rice for ration-card holders as Congress government schemes.
Criticism attributed to BRS leaders
Bhatti questioned whether BRS, which he said expected to return to power, would stop those schemes; the articles do not state BRS’s answer.
- Kitchen contribution
- ₹9.6 crore from Singareni Collieries, according to one report.
- Expected district beneficiaries
- Nearly 60,000 students.
- Institutions served
- Reports differ: 1,020 schools in one account and 1,029 government schools and junior colleges in another.
- Statewide programme
- Bhatti said nearly 27 lakh students receive breakfast six days a week.
- Food and schedule
- Milk and ragi porridge; one report says milk is served three days a week and porridge the other three.
- Residential school
- Young India Integrated Residential School at Gaddipalli; construction cost stated as ₹200 crore.
- Family insurance announcement
- Bhatti said a scheme offering ₹5 lakh in protection would be introduced on November 19; one report names it Indiramma Bheema, while another calls it Indiramma Family Insurance and specifies accidental death of the family head.
