Midday meal scheme launched for college students

A midday repast programme was formally launched astatine the Government First Grade Women’s College astatine Vijayanagar connected January 19. The programme is an inaugural of G.T. Deve Gowda, Chamundeshwari MLA, with the enactment of his adjacent associates.

The programme was launched to guarantee that economically disadvantaged women students coming from surrounding localities and villages wrong the Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency bash not spell bare during the afternoon.

The programme was inaugurated astatine a relation held connected the assemblage campus. During the programme, Mr. Gowda and Akshaya Patra Foundation (ISKCON) President Stoka Krishnaswamy served meals to the students.

In his code aft inaugurating the programme, Mr. Krishnaswamy noted that Mr. Gowda, a long-time visitant to ISKCON, projected providing meals to assemblage students, which the Foundation agreed to support. He said that portion the authorities provides midday meals to superior and precocious superior schoolhouse children, determination is nary specified strategy for assemblage students.

“Students had informed maine that they had to question acold successful hunt of nutrient during lunchtime. So arrangements were made to mobilise resources to motorboat the strategy and guarantee uninterrupted repast organisation successful the aboriginal arsenic well. This scheme, started astatine the Vijayanagar assemblage successful Mysuru, should besides beryllium implemented successful the State,” Mr. Gowda said.

Akshaya Patra Foundation Vice-President Krishna Keshavadas and others were present.