Triposha biscuits for students from 2014

by Carol Aloysius

The Health Ministry has taken steps to provide an additional quota of the nutritional supplement, Triposha for expectant mothers and malnourished children by 2014.

Triposha biscuits, a new nutritional supplement for schoolchildren will be introduced from next year.

“The Lanka Triposha Ltd company at Kandana, under the Ministry of Health which worked at 60 percent capacity three years ago has now an output of 90 percent capacity. We hope to increase it to 100 percent by 2014 with the new machines installed at a cost of Rs. 150 million to provide four packs of Triposha flour to recipients instead of the two packs as at present”, Health Ministry spokesman, W.A.D. Wanninayake told the Sunday Observer.

He said the Health Ministry had already begun talks with leading local biscuit manufacturers who had pledged full support to make these biscuits at the Kandana factory. The biscuits will be distributed free. Mothers who now turn out various food preparations from Triposha flour given for children, say that their children often bring them back home.