The Hindu 23.02.2012
Plan to start eateries for daily wagers
The Chennai Corporation wants to formalise the concept
of ‘Kai yendhi bhavan’ or roadside eateries. It has proposed to set up
around 1,000 eateries across the city in an effort to provide quality,
hygienic food to the city’s floating population of 10 lakh.
“We
would provide good food at low cost to daily wage labourers,
autorickshaw drivers, unorganised workers, and school and college
children. We would provide only breakfast and lunch. We plan to start
200 eateries on a trial basis. People running roadside eateries can also
apply and we are willing to pay them wages,” Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy
told the Corporation Council on Wednesday.
The mayor
said self-help group members would be roped in to prepare food and
transport it to the eateries. The food would be prepared at the four
community kitchens of the Corporation from where food is supplied to
relief centres during the monsoons. The commodities would be procured
from the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation, he said.