Swami Vivekananda once exclaimed, “So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!”
The Government of Tamil Nadu has been kind enough to provide noon meals for all the school children. But quite a number of college and post-matric students coming from interior villages living below the poverty line are deprived of this benefit. Hence they either drop out from the higher education institutions or are extremely weak to concentrate on their studies. Hence we provide free noon meals to selected poor students living below poverty line from our 5 colleges (College of Arts and Science, College of Education, Maruthi College of Physical Education, Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education and Faculty of General & Adapted Physical Education and Yoga), 3 post-matric institutions (Polytechnic, Industrial Training Institute and Diploma in Agricultural education) – all situated in a single campus. There are about 500 such students in these 8 institutions who deserve noon meals.
Details in the year of 2024
|
S. No |
Month | Number of beneficiaries |
Average per day |
|
1 |
March 2024 | 6313 | 339 |
|
2 |
February 2024 | 7033 | 332 |
|
3 |
January 2024 | 3967 | 301 |
Details in the year of 2023
|
1 |
December 2023 | 3764 | 248 |
|
2 |
November 2023 | 3764 | 248 |
|
3 |
October 2023 | 4216 | 277 |
|
4 |
September 2023 | 4376 | 260 |
|
5 |
August 2023 | 6742 | 311 |
|
6 |
July 2023 | 2099 | 113 |
|
7 |
June 2023 | 600 | 40 |
|
8 |
May 2023 | 2417 | 185 |
|
9 |
April 2023 | 4328 | 304 |
|
10 |
March 2023 | 6611 | 310 |
|
11 |
February 2023 | 4482 | 294 |
|
12 |
January 2023 | 4487 | 308 |
