Calling the children as the future of the society, the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav reiterated that his government was committed to provide the better education and healthy food to them. He also claimed that SP Government was taking forward the state on the path of progress and prosperity.
The Chief Minister expressed these views while laying the foundation stone of the centralised modern kitchen which will be set up at Amausi and provide food to more than one lakh students of the lucknow district ranging between class one to eight under the Mid Day Meal scheme. The proposed centralised modern kitchen will be run by an organisation called Akshayapatra.
The Chief Minister said praised the work of Akshayaptara which was running the smimilar kitchen in Vrandawan and Mathura where 1.64 lakhs student were being benefited from it. He called upon the NGO to muster more resources so that similar kitchens could be set up in more districts. "Unless the children are not well fed, they will not be able to concentrate on their studies" Yadav said claiming that his government was taking many steps to improve the educational structure in the state. " The time is not far away when Uttar Pradesh will leave many other states far behind in terms of all round development" he added.
The Basic Education Minister Ram Govind Chaudhri claimed that during last one year many steps have been taken to bring back the basic education on track which had been derailed during the regime of previous government. " With an aim to impement the Mid Day Meal scheme effectively 90 percent women have been recruited as cooks who will get their trainnings at block level" he said.
The Chief Secretary Javed Usmani said that 1.7 lakh primary and higher secondary schools have been covered under Mid Day Mean scheme and Akshyapatra will work under the PPP model. The vice president of Akshyapatra Chanchalapatidas said that propsed kitchen will cost Rs 15 crore for which state government has provided land free of cost. He said similar kitchen will be set up in Safai, Kanpur, Varanasi, Kannaj and Agra in coming days.