GHMC to collect surplus food at hotels, functions

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in association with a non-governmental organisation, is planning to set up refrigerators and store the collected food for distribution among the hungry and needy.

Apple Home for Orphans Children, the NGO at Manikonda, has expressed its willingness to partner with GHMC and install refrigerators at 10 different places across the city. The idea is to serve the surplus food that generally goes waste in hotels or in different function halls to feed the needy. Besides, this will help in ensuring the food does not get spoiled, a senior GHMC official said.

People, who wish to donate food can handover the same to the personnel manning the refrigerators in their vicinity. Similarly, the surplus food available from households, hotels, function halls and other places can also be



handed over at any of the 10 places where the refrigerators will be installed. The NGO has approached the GHMC to set up refrigerators of 530 litres capacity at the 10 locations with its own investment. It will also deploy a physically challenged person to man, operate and clean the appliance daily.

A temporary shed will be constructed to place the refrigerator, which will be sporting the logos of both GHMC and the NGO. On its part, GHMC will not make any investment and provide arrangements for power supply arrangements to operate refrigerators, the official said.

The Standing Committee has approved the proposal to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the municipal corporation and the NGO. Once the agreement is signed, basic works will be commenced, said the official.