GHMC To Extend Rs 5 Meal Scheme To 100 Centres

GHMC Commissioner and Special Officer Somesh Kumar said that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation proposed to expand the Rs 5 meal scheme to 100 centres during the current financial year.

He was speaking after the inauguration of the 23rd centre near the Satyam theater at Ameerpet on Friday by Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav.

He said that the response to the Rs 5 food scheme launched by the GHMC last year had been encouraging, and in the 2015-16 GHMC budget, the corporation had earmarked Rs 20 crores for establishing 100 food centres.

The Rs 5 food scheme offered hot and hygienic meals for the poor and needy, and in the last year, the meal had been provided to nearly 13 lakh people, Kumar stated.

The GHMC was the only corporation in the country which had taken up such an innovative scheme to help the indigent, Kumar claimed. Currently, 22 food centres were operating in the GHMC limits, where about 8,000 people were having the lunch, he said.

Later, the minister, along with GHMC Special Officer and other officials, visited different areas of the Sanathnagar constituency. They inspected the works at Balkampet, Fatehnagar, B K Guda park, Sanathnagar market and other places.

Yadav and Somesh Kumar also visited the Ameerpet Gurudwara and paid obeisance to Guru Granth Sahibji. They were presented with "Siropas" and shawls.

Speaking on the occasion, Yadav said that state government was striving hard to develop the Hyderabad on par with international cities. (INN)