Breakfast for Rs 5 to be introduced at Indiramma Canteens across Hyderabad

Indiramma canteens in Hyderabad will soon serve breakfast at Rs 5, with GHMC subsidising the cost. The Rs 15.33-crore scheme uses 139 mobile containers. GHMC also clears tenders for civic infrastructure projects and lease extensions for TGSPF and Hydraa at Buddha Bhavan

Hyderabad: Soon, Indiramma Canteens will serve breakfast for Rs 5 in the city. The GHMC’s standing committee, at its meeting chaired by Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, passed a resolution to introduce the scheme.

The cost of the breakfast will be Rs 19, with the GHMC bearing Rs 14 and the beneficiary contributing Rs 5. A total of 139 containers will be used to implement the scheme. The annual budget for the breakfast scheme is Rs 15.33 crore.

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Meawhile, at Thursday’s meeting, the standing committee also passed resolutions to invite a tender for Rs 5.60 crore for repairing and strengthening the tank bund at Saroornagar and approved a 100-ft road widening from RoB Shastripuram to IRR (near Mehfil Hotel).

The committee addressed 102 properties affected in the master plan to construct a missing link road from Vanasthalipuram road to Old Hayathnagar road via Sahebnagar and sanctioned Rs 585 lakh to build a compound wall to protect the GHMC land at Gajularamaram.

The committee extended another three years of lease to the Telangana Government Special Protection (TGSPF) and three years to the Hyderabad Disaster Management and Asset Protection Agency (Hydraa) in Buddha Bhavan.