Children from rural areas captivated visitors with their colourful rangolis, which they made as part of the Karimnagar Dairy Sankranthi utsavalu at the dairy premises here on Wednesday.
As many as 512 girl students decorated the premises with rangolis using pulses, vegetables, and other decorative items, as part of a rangoli competition organised by Karimnagar Milk Producer Company Limited albeit Karimnagar Dairy. Prizes were given to over 100 participants.
Commissioner of Police V.B. Kamalasan Reddy, who was the chief guest at the event, judged the rangolis and appreciated the students’ creativity. Expressing concern over fewer number of farmers showing interest in cultivation, he said in the recent past some of the IT professional were returning to their native village and taking up cultivation of commercial crop and earning good profits.
Mr. Reddy said farmers should take up cultivation as well as dairy units to get profits and nutrition via milk. He urged milkmen of the erstwhile Karimnagar district to launch a milk revolution by increasing milk production to 5 lakh litre a day to meet the growing demand.
Karimnagar Dairy chairman Ch. Rajeshwara Rao explained the welfare programmes taken up for milkmen and milch cattle. The company has chalked out strategies to increase milk production from the existing 2 lakh litres a day to 5 lakh litres per day, he said.
On the occasion, the dignitaries distributed scholarships of ₹800 to 498 students each as well as the Janashree Bima Yojana insurance claim to 26 persons. Dairy advisor V. Hanumantha Reddy and managing director P. Shankar Reddy were also present.
