Now, their ₹80,000 investment in the fields that lay ignored for up to 20 years has yielded one month’s supply of rice for the mid-day meal for poor students at college. Meals for 300Naveen N. Konaje, Associate Professor and NSS programme coordinator at the college said the mid-day meal made with the rice would help about 300 students. When the mid-day meal needs bolstering after mid-April, and the current academic year is completed, funds would be collected from donors to start again. Mr. Konaje said that in the 2018 monsoon, the students would expand and grow paddy on about 10 acres. College principal Rajashekar Hebbar said the students planned to add horticulture too, growing vegetables in the next spell.

Source: The Hindu February 11, 2018 16:41 UTC