Students' Future is State's Future: Bhatti

He strongly criticized those who, with half-baked understanding, label welfare initiatives as freebies. Just as governments invest in industries, infrastructure, and development projects, they also invest in the people—especially the poor, Dalits, backward communities, and all sections of society. Such investments, he said, help citizens progress socially and economically.

He inaugurated the Centralized Community Kitchen in Madhira Assembly constituency, which will provide nutritious breakfast to students studying in government schools.

Addressing a public meeting, he said that the Congress-led People's Government is committed to ensuring that no child in Telangana goes to school hungry. Bhatti emphasized that the future of students is the future of the state.

Despite financial constraints, the government has introduced the free breakfast scheme to provide students with hygienic, tasty, and nutritious food every morning, promoting both their physical and mental development. As announced in the State budget, the scheme has now been launched across all government schools, beginning from Madhira constituency.

He reiterated that under Indiramma Rajyam, no child should attend school on an empty stomach. Every child born in the state represents Telangana's future, and therefore the government is determined to provide them with a healthy start each day.

The Deputy Chief Minister said the scheme was introduced because children who come to school hungry struggle to concentrate, cannot properly understand lessons, and are unable to focus on their education. The government has taken this decision to eliminate such hardships.

Bhatti described human resources as the greatest wealth of the state. While natural resources are essential for development, a state or nation can become truly powerful only when it possesses talented and capable human resources.

He stressed that Telangana should nurture children into world-class talent, "polishing them like diamonds" so they can guide not only the state and the country but also the world.

He called the statewide breakfast programme the beginning of that vision. Serving hot breakfast simultaneously to 2.7 million students across Telangana is a historic decision and, according to him, one that deserves to be recorded in golden letters in the nation's history.

He observed that in today's times, even providing breakfast to two children at home is difficult for many families. Yet the government has undertaken the enormous responsibility of serving hot breakfast every morning to two million government school students and 700,000 residential school students, totaling 2.7 million children.

Bhatti remarked that no other state or country has implemented such a large-scale breakfast programme, adding that what once seemed impossible has become possible through determination and public commitment.

He said the programme is being implemented in partnership with the Hare Krishna Mission, which has established highly mechanized and hygienic kitchens. At present, the temporary centralized kitchen in Madhira supplies breakfast to schools in 16 mandals, and permanent centralized kitchens across the state will be completed within the next three months.

In addition to breakfast, the government is providing milk three days a week and ragi malt three days a week to improve students' nutrition. Bhatti shared that having a meal with schoolchildren gave him one of the greatest satisfactions of his political life.

He stated that governance is not about holding office or exercising authority. Real governance means mobilizing available resources, planning for society's welfare, and laying strong foundations for people's development.

As part of this vision, the government is constructing Indiramma houses worth Rs.5 lakh each for homeless families across the state. He said witnessing the joy in the eyes of poor families during housewarming ceremonies gives him the true feeling of what governance means.

Recalling his People's March from Adilabad to Khammam, Bhatti said he personally witnessed the hardships faced by people, including the poor condition of schools, unemployment, and the suffering of homeless families. The ideas that took shape in his mind during that journey, he said emotionally, are now being implemented one by one as welfare schemes.