The Hindu 07.04.2013
Five ‘Amma Unavagams’ to come up in Coimbatore city soon
Corporation is in the process of identifying locations for the canteens.
Coimbatore will soon have five ‘Amma Unavgams,’ the
budget restaurants, from which members of the working class and
economically weaker sections can have food at subsidised rates.
According
to Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner G. Latha, the civic body planned
to open five such canteens in the city – one each a zone in the coming
days. Divulging further details would be premature at this stage because
things were at a preliminary stage.
Plus, the
Corporation was also expecting orders from of the office of the
Commissioner for Municipal Administration in this regard. There were
chances that the number of canteens could also go up.
Sources
in the civic body said that the Corporation was in the process of
identifying locations for the canteens and they could most probably be
located on the civic body premises. The kitchen could come up at the
Corporation wedding hall at Puliakulam.
The civic
body had formed a committee comprising the City Health Officer for this
purpose. The members of the committee included representatives of the
engineering wing, sanitary supervisors and of course the Commissioner
and Deputy Commissioner.
The sources said that the
Corporation planned to involve members of self help groups in
maintaining the kitchen and serving food at the counters. It had also
planned to involve owners of roadside eateries if they were interested.
The
Corporation would buy provisions in bulk from the Tamil Nadu Civil
Supplies Corporation, Chinthamani, the Co-operative store, curd from
Aavin and vegetables from the market. The rough estimates it had
prepared suggests that there could be a variation in the production
price give the cost of living in the city vis-à-vis Chennai.
If
the Corporation were to open such canteens, it would be of immense help
to the working class in the industrial city of Coimbatore, said U.K.
Sivagnanam, member, District Secretariat, Communist Party of India
(Marxist).
The Corporation should open a canteen in each of the 100 wards, he suggested.
