Gollapudi Radha Krishna’s Free Midday Meals

Gollapudi Satram

Sri Gollapudi Radha Krishna’s Free Midday Meals Hostel was started in 1933 for helping Poor Students coming from nearby villages and returning home in the same night.

In those days there was a lack of facilities for education. Already there was a well-established school founded by Sri Bandla Bapaiah Chetty garu with good buildings and play ground. So providing Midday Meals to the students is a necessary and needy project. Sri G. Radha Krishnaiah coined the project from a Hindu theosophical school, snow carpet, Madras where renowned Headmaster Sri Rangaswami Iyengar was working at that time.

One Of A Kind

Hostel admissions are made in the School / Jr. College Degree College re-opening day after summer vacation. The students who belong to the poor apply for seats in the hostel, without caste and creed discrimination. The selected students will be given tokens after the interview. While entering Dinning Hall, students should take VEEBUDHI or TILAK on their foreheads and recite a prayer before taking meals.

Probably this is only one Private charitable hostel which is providing Midday Meals open to all irrespective of caste and creed without Govt. Funds, across the State.