Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Pic Via Twitter)Bhopal, Jan 25 (PTI) A centralised kitchen that will prepare mid-day meals for nearly 47,000 school children was inaugurated here by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday.
The facility, spread over 1 acre, will provide hot and nutritious meals to students in government-run primary and middle schools in the urban areas of the Bhopal district, Chouhan said.
Mid-day meals are given to students in government and government-aided schools across the country under the PM Poshan Programme.
CM Chouhan said the state government has signed an agreement with the Akshaya Patra Foundation, a Bengaluru-headquartered NGO, to run the kitchen.
More such organisations will be roped in to provide mid-day meals in government schools in the state, he said.
The kitchen has come up at a cost of Rs 12 crore spent by HEG Limited, which will also give Rs 7 crore a year to provide additional dishes like cake, “sweet dalia” and “kheer” to the students, said Chouhan.
The NGO said the kitchen is the biggest mid-day meal facility in Madhya Pradesh and will serve food to students in 900 schools.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without any modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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