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Where not just the food, but the price is tempting too -Tripti Nath

-TheWeekendLeader.com

Chennai: In Tamil Nadu, former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s posthumous omnipresence is best reflected in the success of the 657 Amma Unavagams (canteens) that serve piping hot fare at unbelievably low rates to anyone who walks in looking for a satisfying meal.
 
These canteens provide barrier free access and are managed efficiently by a dedicated, diligent and disciplined army of women. Some even wake up at the crack of dawn and start cooking in the canteen kitchens at 5 am so that people can line up at the serving windows with their coupons for breakfast by 7 am.

 People in Chennai believe that Jayalalithaa, who served as Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister four times and came to be addressed as “Amma”, won the hearts of the poor by ensuring that they receive their basic meals with dignity, for a song.
 
This popular social scheme launched by Jayalalithaa in February 2013, to help the impoverished fight food inflation, contributed to AIADMK’s stunning victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and to her re-election in the 2016 Assembly polls, which turned out to be her last electoral outing.
 
The Amma canteens open for service daily from 7 am to 10 am, noon to 3 pm, and then from 6 pm  to 9 pm. The price list penned in Tamil on a green board at the entrance is extremely inviting: idli (a south Indian staple steamed rice cake) costs Re 1, curd rice costs Rs 3, while lemon rice and sambar rice come at Rs 5.
 
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