CT Group of Institutions celebrates Independence Day with socially deprived people

Jalandhar, August 12, 2015: On the 69th independence day of India, CT Group of Institutions pledges to eradicate food starvation in the local community and started a scheme “EK Muthi Chawal aur Dal”; is an initiative to collect one handful of rice and dal from wealthy local community and in turn cooked food from this collected stuff and distribute it to socially deprived class in society.

This practice was done by the students of CT Institute of Hotel management (CTIHM). The institutions have chalked out plan to celebrate Independence Day with socially deprived class on Wednesday at Nakodar Road.

Mr. Manbir Singh (Managing Director, CT Group of Institutions) said, “Students hosted feast for that they prepared the meal of the collected food stuffs from wealthy community in the society.”

Volunteer students collected palm full of rice and cereals from different areas of Jalandhar from wealthy people and took pledge from the local community to help the socially deprived people on this Independence Day.

S. Charanjit Singh Channi (Chairman, CT Group of Institutions) said if the community as a whole joined hand we will not have food starved people in our area, Jalandhar and in our country. We feel that 69th Independence Day should be a day of sumptuous food day for the needy and deprived people.”

He said, “Several times we have seen that food get thrown in garbage not because it is stale but it is in excess of what has already been consumed and don’t know what to do with that and this regularly happens in maximum houses of our city.”  He said, “To avoid such wastage of food, the excess cooked food should be given to the needy people or should be sent to the orphanage.”