BJP demands Govt to clear mid-day meals bills

^{BJP Telangana helping has demanded the Congress Government to} mmediately wide mid-day repast dues and guarantee nutritious nutrient for each hostel students. “I impulse the Telangana authorities not to halt the mid-day repast strategy and support students’ wellness by prividing e them timely, prime meals. Students successful tribal and BC hostels are the aboriginal of the federation — their payment is the government’s responsibility,” said enactment president N. Ramchander Rao connected Thursday.

Addressing a property league astatine the State bureau connected the juncture of ‘Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas’ being organised crossed the state to honour of Jharkhand’s tribal leader ‘Bhagwan’ Birsa Munda’s commencement anniversary, helium charged that tr^{ibal payment ne'er received precedence nether Congress rule. C}ontractors supplying mid-day meals successful schools person not been paid their dues causing batch of hardship to students studying successful Gurukul schools, BC hostels, and tribal hostels arsenic mid-day repast strategy risks coming to a halt, helium claimed.

Mr. Rao alleged that the nutrient prime has drastically declined and students are falling sick successful immoderate hostel. He was referring to a BC hostel successful Achampet wherever immoderate students were hospitalized owed to illness. In Vikarabad too, respective students vomited aft eating hostel food, helium said. The BJP person questioned the modular of atom being supplied to the hostels astatine a clip erstwhile the authorities has been boasting of providing good rice.

Earlier, helium recalledBirsa Munda’s conflict for tribal rights and self-reliance inspired generations. Alongside leaders similar Komaram Bheem, Ranjhi Gond, and Alluri Sitarama Raju, helium played a pivotal relation successful India’s state movement, warring from the forests against British imperial forces.

^{The Atal Bihari Vajpayee had established the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the ST Commission and present the} Modi Government has taken up respective payment and improvement works for the tribals welfare: drinking h2o done pipelines has reached implicit 90,000 homes successful 6,700 villages, energy proviso expanded to tribal regions, 1,000 caller Anganwadi centers, Eklavya Model Residential Schools to amended acquisition access, 11 museums dedicated to tribal state fighters, etc. About ₹42,000 crore was allocated for tribal payment this year, underscoring its committedness to inclusive development, helium added.