Tamilnadu Government's Budget Canteens at Chennai To Serve One Rupee Idly

The State Government of Tamilnadu has announced a scheme of opening 1000 -Corporation-owned budget- canteens in Chennai City, to provide healthy food at cheap/affordable rates to the :

People living in slums,
Daily labourers,
Drivers,
Load-men and
Migrant workers.

The Government’s budget-canteens will offer from 7 am to 10 am and noon till 3 pm the following food items:

Idli (100 gram) with sambar for Re 1/-,
Sambar Rice (350 gram) at Rs. 5/- and
Curd Rice (350 gram) at Rs. 3/-.

However, the Government’s Budget-canteens will not supply packed food, that is there is no parcel facility.

Trained Self-Help Groups / SHG -Women will manage the budget-canteens and the Sanitary Officials will monitor the quality of the food and the Revenue Officials will be maintaining the accounts of the canteens.

The Tamil Nadu Ware-housing Corporation will be supplying rice at subsidized prices to the budget-canteens.

Each canteen will be manned by 15 SHG- members who will be paid Rs 300/-per day.

As a first step of the above scheme, the Government’s budget-canteens have been opened in the following 15 zones in Chennai City on 19th February 2013:-

Thiruvottiyur
Mathur, Manali
Surapet, Madhavaram
Old Washermenpet
Pillaiyar Koil Street, Royapuram
Pulianthope
Oragadam, Ambattur
Taylors Road, Kilpauk;
Santhome High Road;
Sivagnanam Salai, T.Nagar;
North Mada Street, Maduravoyal;
Nehru High Road, Nanganallur;
Kuppam Kadarkarai Salai, Thiruvanmiyur;
Anna Nedunchalai, Perungudi; and
Thoraipakkam.

The budget-canteen at Santhome was inaugurated by Dr.J.Jayalalitha, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. By March 2013 the number of budget-canteens at Chennai City would be increased to 200.

Tamilnadu Government’s Budget Canteens at Chennai To Serve One Rupee Idly

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