By aiming to give nutritious food for the pregnant woman and for lactating mothers and children upto the age of 6 years who are under the poverty Telangana CM KCR launched Aogya Lakshmi scheme on Jan first 2015.Previously they also launched Kalyana Lakshmi for the needy people .The KAyana Lakshmi gives Rs 51,000 to girls from the poor sections of the society for their weddings, it is time now for `Arogya Lakshmi’ programme in Telangana.
In this new programme, the government would provide nutritious meal consisting of 200 ml of milk for a period of 25 days a month in addition to one egg each day . For children, who are between the age of seven months and three years, the programme will provide their families 16 eggs a month in addition to a 2.5 kg food packet which contains wheat, milk powder, chana dal, sugar and oil. For children aged between 3 and seven years, the government will provide one egg a day along with rice, dal, vegetables and snacks.
The programme is aimed to benefit more than 5.9 lakh women and 18.20 lakh children who are economically poor.
It is agood attempt by Telangana government.It may help to get rid from birth related diseases in young ones which are due to inadequate nutrition.If this scheme implemented successfully, the Telanagana state will be seen as good healthy citizens in the future.Hence,today children are tomarrows citizens.