Rs10 meal scheme launched in Sirsa

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 14

With the initiative taken by Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associate Vaishali Khandelwal, the district administration in Sirsa today launched ‘Aao te Khao’, a project for providing affordable nutritious food to poor people in the town, with the help of an NGO.

Under the project, poor can have affordable, but healthy and nutritious food for Rs 10 a meal.

Deputy Commissioner Sharandeep Kaur Brar and Khandelwal inaugurated the programme near the bus stand where nearly 400 people had their meals.

“I had been noticing that people coming from outside, including farmers, for their routine jobs faced a lot of hardship as the meals were either very costly in the town or not nutritious. So, we roped in Langar Sewa Samiti, an NGO, which has been providing free meals in General Hospital, Janata Maternity Hospital, Deaf and Dumb School and Blinds School in the town for the past 13 years and launched the programme,” said Khandelwal.

Brar said though the project had been initiated with the efforts of the district administration, its management would be entirely in the hands of the NGOs.