Anna Canteens comes up at Velagapudi by June end

The State Government is planning to launch NTR canteens on a pilot basis at Velagapudi, the upcoming interim Secretariat by the end of this month.

The government has decided to supply idli-sambar and Pongal as tiffins in the morning. Lemon rice, sambar rice and curd rice would be supplied as lunch in afternoon. The cost of the tiffin and lunch is yet to be fixed said sources.

Setting up of NTR canteens to serve food at a affordable rate is one of the poll promises the TDP has made at the time of general elections. The government has announced to set up 35 Anna canteens at various places including Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Tirupati and Anantapur.

A cabinet sub-committee was constituted with Minister for Municipal Administration P.Narayana, Civil Supplies Minister P.Sunita and Agriculture Minister P.Pulla Rao as its members to examine the programme in Tamil Nadu.

Minister P.Sunita said that th4e Akshayapatra Foundation would be entrusted the responsibility of canteens and the government zeroed in on a land for setting up kitchen for the canteens which would function at different places.