Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today said that nutritional mid-day meals will be offered in all junior and degree colleges in the state from this academic year.
In a review meeting, the Chief Minister instructed the officials to provide nutritional value meals to the degree students. Since many students going out for homes during lunch hours and the dropout rate is increasing thereby. To prevent this and to provide healthy food we have to offer mid-day meals for the degree students, he opined.
The Chief Minister instructed to develop greenery in the colleges. When Jadcharla MLA Dr. K Laxma, Reddy informed that government junior College lecturer Raghuram is offering mid-day meals to the students on his own, KCR has appreciated him.
Immediately he offered to replicate it to entire state junior and degree colleges. The Chief Minister also asked to hold a meeting with botany lecturers to take up the green drive in their colleges.
KCR appreciated assistant professor Sadashivaiah for the plan to the development of Telangana Botanical Garden in the Jadcharla degree college. He also sanctioned Rs 50 lakhs to the college for greenery expansion.
Agriculture Minister Niranjan Reddy, chief secretary Somesh Kumar and officials Chitra, Ramachandran were present.
