{"id":40694,"date":"2020-06-20T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=40694"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:00:47","slug":"rs-13-for-two-meals-ammas-canteens-in-tamil-nadu-but-rupani-has-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/rs-13-for-two-meals-ammas-canteens-in-tamil-nadu-but-rupani-has-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 13 for two meals, Amma&#8217;s canteens in Tamil Nadu, but Rupani has stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa&#8217;s heavily subsidised budget canteens have turned out to be a huge hit in Chennai. The Rupani government has stopped giving such food to a few thousand people in the labor market in Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>In one stroke, Amma Unavagam (Amma Eatery) has delivered twin benefits.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tamil Nadu: Amma canteen in Chennai&#39;s Chetpet is distributing free food amid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. Ponnusami, a watchman says, &quot;Due to lockdown many hotels got closed. This measure by the govt is great and helpful. We thank the Tamil Nadu government.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rcdbJ981z4\">pic.twitter.com\/rcdbJ981z4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1274320616158449669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The breakfast menu of idli sambar at Rs 1 per idli, and a lunch menu consisting of sambar rice (price Rs 5) and curd rice at Rs 3, has made the state&#8217;s staple meals affordable for all.<\/p>\n<p>And at the same time, the scheme has also successfully delivered maximum on the burp factor, months ahead of the next General Elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a state which is usually viewed as a fountain-head of populist schemes, the latest scheme has won brownie points for making the rupee work more.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you have Rs 13 in your pocket, you can have two square meals a day.<\/p>\n<p>Amma Eatery therefore makes a lot of economic sense for people across all sections of society, and some have even begun to dub it the &#8216;people&#8217;s canteen&#8217; .<\/p>\n<p>Edwin, who works as a security guard in a commercial complex on Anna Salai, has been a regular at the Amma Eatery near SIET College for over two weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>The food offered at heavily subsidised prices \u2013 idli at Re 1 each, pongal for Rs 5, lemon and sambar rice for Rs 5, curd rice for Rs 3 and two chapatis with dhal for Rs 3 \u2013 is a boon for people from the marginalised sections of society. With a relatively well-maintained kitchen and a tidy little space with tables that are frequently cleaned, \u201call kinds of people\u201d come in for their meals, Vasanthi says. Provisions are provided to the Amma Unavagams by the government.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa&#8217;s heavily subsidised budget canteens have turned out to be a huge hit in Chennai. The Rupani government has stopped giving such food to a few thousand people in the labor market in Gujarat. In one stroke, Amma Unavagam (Amma Eatery) has delivered twin benefits. Tamil Nadu: Amma canteen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[54,4368,4665],"tags":[9007,16,8319],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-aAm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40696,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694\/revisions\/40696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}