While the subsidised meals scheme launched by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in Hyderabad has become a major hit, not many people are aware that Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and newly-elected MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha has been running a free meals camp in Nizamabad town for the last three years.
On Saturday, the free meals camp of Kavitha has completed three years. She started it during her tenure as a Member of Parliament from Nizamabad at Nizamabad Government Hospital and Nizamabad Library.
On an average, each camp feeds more than 750 people a day. Even during the lockdown period, Kavitha ran the camp and it was a raging hit.
Over the last three years, the "Free Meal Camps" has been able to cater to suffice the hunger needs of over 7 lakh people and more.
According to party sources, the aim of these camps was to attend to the problems faced by patients and the attendants at Nizamabad Government General Hospital (GGH) in getting hygienic and healthy meals.
This was effective especially for those patients who could not afford to spend hundreds a day over food along with other medical expenses. Kavitha started the centre by bearing all expenditure.
The distribution centre received massive support from the people that eventually led to the expansion of the scheme which is feeding more than 1500 people daily in total from all the centres.
A free food centre at the Bodhan Government Hospital was later launched on April 26, 2018, while one at Government hospital Armoor was launched on July 5, 2018. The second centre in Nizamabad was launched at the City library on July 15, 2018.
The volunteers of Free Meal Programme, led by Kavitha served the migrant centres with over 2500 food packets a day, over 700 people at their regular centres respectively and served migrants walking back home with dry food packets and extended their support by attending to the immediate needs of migrants in distress.
The programme was further extended to serve frontline Covid Warriors who were serving for endless hours in the line of duty.
