Breakfast for 27 lakh students every day, says T'gana DyCM

Suryapet, Oct 6 (UNI) Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka today said the state's initiative to provide hot breakfast to 27 lakh government-school students every day was a unique programme focused on improving children's nutrition and education. Bhatti, along with Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy, laid the foundation stone for a Rs 9.6-crore Centralised Community Kitchen at Munagala in Kodad constituency. The modern kitchen will provide breakfast to nearly 60,000 students in 1,020 schools. He said breakfast was being served six days a week, with milk on three days and ragi porridge on the other three. He described welfare spending…