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Food and Nutrition Security/ Mid Day Meal Scheme/ ICDS/ PDS | Lunch thali for Rs 10: BJP civic bodies seek way to voters' hearts -Paras Singh

Lunch thali for Rs 10: BJP civic bodies seek way to voters' hearts -Paras Singh

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published Published on Dec 26, 2017   modified Modified on Dec 26, 2017
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A whole meal for 10 bucks may sound unrealistic in today's world but subsidised food has been a popular poll promise of almost all political parties. Taking a cue from the popularity of "Amma canteens" in Tamil Nadu, civic bodies in the capital, too, rolled out half a dozen "Atal Aahaar Kendra" centres on Monday, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday, which will dole out subsidised lunches at Rs 10 per thali.

On Monday, six centres were launched in Okhla Mandi, Matiala chowk, Green Park/AIIMS, Raghubir Nagar, Kakraula Mor in Najafgarh and in Shalimar Bagh. North and South Corporations have announced that one such centre will be opened in every ward in a phased manner in the next one year while the East Corporation has put the scheme on hold due to its severe financial crunch, its standing committee chairman Parvesh Sharma said.

The kiosks, which are of 9 feet by 5 feet in size, have been set up by the NGOs operating midday meal kitchens.

They will remain open between noon and 2pm on all seven days. The centres will provide four puris or 250g rice with 150g sabzi in one of these combinations — chhole-chawal, rajma-chawal, puri-sabzi, dalchawal, puri-chhole. "We expect to get around 500-700 plates every day and the civic body has assured that they will provide Rs 4-5 per thali financial assistance in the later phase. The Jan Aahaar project by the Sheila Dikshit government eventually shut down due to a flawed financial model," said Godfrey Pereira from a self-help group, JGHS, which is managing the Atal Kendra in Green Park and previously ran a Jan Aahaar Kendra. Kamaljeet Sehrawat, the South Delhi mayor, said that she was happy that an important promise in the election manifesto is being fulfilled.

The North Corporation's pilot food kiosk project, called "Atal Rasoi Deen Dayal Aahaar Kendra", has been opened in Shalimar Bagh. Standing committee chairman Tilak Raj Kataria said, "We have stared this food kiosk as a pilot project. We will run this food kiosk with the help of local residents. Expansion will be done in phases — initially each zone chairman will set up a kendra, then the 21 councillors who are special committee chairmen and finally each of the 104 councillors within the next one year and budgetary provision for the same will be made in the ongoing budget session."

The cash-strapped north corporation hopes to raise the revenue for the project by giving operators advertisement rights though sources in the corporation said that there's a tiff within the corporation and the project has not yet been cleared by the House. Opposition members have argued that unless an open tender is carried out the project should not be passed.

AAP, too, had promised to open "Aam Aadmi canteens" but the project has failed to materialise. A similar proposal was mooted in 2014 by Satish Upadhyay but it could not be implemented. Corporation officials also have been reluctant to get into the business of providing food, especially when no such funds or provisions exist under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act.
 
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