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Hans India
2 days ago
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Midday meals to feature high-quality rice in Tirupati dist: JC
Tirupati: Joint Collector Shubham Bansal announced that fine-quality rice (R&R variety) will be supplied to government schools and hostels across the district from Thursday aimed at enhancing the quality of the Midday Meal Scheme. This initiative aims to provide nutritious and hygienic food to children, ensuring better health outcomes and improved edu-cational participation. As per government guidelines, the rice being supplied is of BPL-grade fine variety, packed in 25 kg bags. A total of 21,744 rice packets have already been dispatched across the district. Of these, 7,614 packets are being sent to 1,867 government schools, 9,400 packets to government hostels, 3,377 packets to ISKCON (Tirupati) for their midday meal programme, and 1,353 packets to the Akshaya Patra Foundation. To ensure transparency and prevent misuse or diversion, each rice packet is embedded with a QR code. This allows real-time digital tracking of the rice from the MLS (Mandala Level Stock) points to the schools and hostels. Schools have also been instructed to thoroughly verify the QR codes on the packets before accepting the supplies. Under the guidance of the Chief Minister and the Minister for Civil Supplies, this programme is being rolled out as a model of quality as-surance in public food distribution. Joint Collector Bansal also high-lighted that for the first time in three years, the district has achieved the procurement of 95,000 metric tonnes of fine rice during the Kha-rif and Rabi seasons. The rice is not only being supplied to Tirupati but also to other dis-tricts including Chittoor, Kadapa, Annamayya, Puttaparthi, Nellore, and Anantapur. He further informed that implementation efforts have been underway for the past 15 days.
Hans India
24-05-2025
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Collector pushes for grassroots yoga drive under Yogandhra-2025
Tirupati: District Collector Dr S Venkateswar directed officials to identify district-level yoga instructors and mandal-wise master trainees to take the 'Yogandhra-2025' initiative to the grassroots. He held a virtual meeting with senior officials on Friday evening to chalk out the implementation plan for the next one month. Joint Collector Shubham Bansal, Commissioner N Mourya and Gudur Sub Collector Raghavendra Meena participated in the meeting, during which the Collector underlined the importance of spreading awareness about yoga from village to district level. He called for a coordinated action plan to involve the public and ensure the success of the campaign. Dr Venkateswar said each mandal should have four master trainers, with each trainer tasked with training at least 50 individuals — aiming to train 25,000 to 30,000 people in each mandal. A five-session training programme for master trainers is scheduled for May 24 and 25. Village secretariat staff have been directed to go door-to-door to create awareness and facilitate registrations. The responsibility for registering participants from all levels — villages, mandals, districts, Visakhapatnam, and other locations — lies with the secretariat officials. District-level, mandal-level, and village-level committees are being set up to conduct various activities and competitions under the Yogandhra-2025 campaign. Special awareness programmes will be held at key tourist sites on May 29 in Tirupati, June 4 at Chandragiri Fort, and June 11 and 17 at Srikalahasti and Sriharikota. Municipal Commissioners have been instructed to promote the initiative through wall paintings at crowded public places. Officials from DRDA, DWCRA, DWMA, MEPMA, ICDS, TTD, Police Department, and educational institutions have been directed to ensure registration of their staff and students. Officials from various departments including Tirupati, Srikalahasti and Sullurpet RDOs Ramamohan, Bhanu Prakash Reddy and Kiranmayi also participated in the virtual meeting.
