Vedanta, under its CSR programme, has signed an MoU with Manna Trust, which is in charge of operations of the centralised MDM kitchen at Brahmapur, as a part of its efforts to enhance nutritional supplements in MDMs of 66,500 children in Government and Government-aided schools under Brahmapur Municipality, Chattrapur and Hinjlicut blocks of Ganjam district.
The company will spend over Rs 2.95 crore in the current fiscal to ensure distribution of two eggs per week, which provides 248 calories per week per student, in MDMs provided to 81,500 students in Kalahandi and Ganjam districts in the current fiscal. last year the Sesa Sterelite limited (SSl), lanjigarh, had added two eggs per week to the MDM component on request by the State Government. It provided boiled eggs twice a week along with MDM to 15,000 students of 187 schools of lanjigarh block in Kalahandi district.
According to a company spokesperson, “Vedanta is committed to contribute towards the Millennium Development Goals. MDM centralized kitchen programme is one of the steps to ensure right to food and right to education to children of disadvantaged section of society from Kalahandi and Ganjam districts studying in the class I to VIII.”