Telangana’s school breakfast programme has received a ₹9.17-crore funding boost from Junna Solar Systems Pvt. Ltd and Chain Labs India Pvt. Ltd, which are supporting the construction of centralised community kitchens in Nagar Kurnool and Vikarabad.
The kitchens will be established by the Hare Krishna Movement Charitable Foundation (HKMCF) to prepare and distribute breakfasts to government schoolchildren in the two regions. According to the announcement, the Nagar Kurnool kitchen is expected to serve 50,000 children, while the Vikarabad facility will cater to 20,000 children.
Junna Solar Systems has contributed ₹5.17 crore towards the Nagar Kurnool kitchen. The company said the facility would serve children across government schools in Nagar Kurnool district, the native place of its chairman and managing director, Shekhar Reddy.
Chain Labs India, a Delhi-based organisation, has contributed ₹4 crore towards the Vikarabad kitchen. The contribution will support a facility intended to provide breakfasts to 20,000 government schoolchildren in the Vikarabad region.
The contributions were formally handed over through cheques at a ceremony attended by Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. Shekhar Reddy, Junna Solar Systems chief executive and director B. Anil Babu, and Chain Labs India vice-president for public policy Sumanta Dey participated in the handover. Satya Gaura Chandra Dasa, president of HKMCF, received the cheques on behalf of the foundation.
The state government has described the breakfast programme as part of its effort to address classroom hunger and support school attendance and learning. At the ceremony, Revanth Reddy appreciated the contributions and encouraged HKMCF functionaries to continue implementing the programme across Telangana.
The initiative places centralised food preparation at the centre of the programme’s delivery model. Instead of relying only on food preparation at individual schools, community kitchens are intended to produce breakfasts at scale and distribute them to government schools in the covered areas. The announcement, however, does not provide details on the kitchens’ locations, construction schedules, daily menus, delivery routes, staffing, food-safety protocols or the expected date of operations.
HKMCF president Satya Gaura Chandra Dasa said the kitchens would help ensure that children reached school with a nutritious meal and linked the programme to the wider goals of child nutrition and education. He also thanked the two companies and the chief minister for supporting the initiative.
The foundation said the partnership represents a public-private model involving the state government, a charitable organisation and corporate donors. It also linked the work to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals covering zero hunger, quality education and reduced inequalities.
The two kitchens are expected to serve a combined 70,000 children once operational, based on the beneficiary figures provided in the announcement. Further implementation details, including construction milestones and the start of breakfast distribution, were not specified.
