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Jayalalithaa launches 201 Amma Canteens, populist schemes
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 May, 2015
A day after she was sworn in as chief minister, J. Jayalalithaa on
Sunday inaugurated 201 Amma Canteens and various populist schemes across
the state via video conferencing.
She launched a scheme to sell
500 gm packets of "A" grade lentils (pigeon pea) and black gram at
subsidised rates of Rs.53.50 and Rs.56, respectively.
According to a statement issued by the state government, "B" grade black gram would be sold at Rs.49.50 per 500 gm packet.
The pulses would be sold through state government cooperative stores.
The
Amma Canteen scheme is a hugely popular one. At these canteens, good
quality food is sold at very cheap rates three times a day -- morning,
afternoon and night.
A total of 297 Amma Canteens were functioning across the state till date and their number went up to 498 on Sunday.
Jayalalithaa
also launched housing for poor, road improvement (outlay Rs.1,800
crore), drinking water (outlay Rs.77.13 crore) and livelihood training
programmes for which Rs.100 crore has been allocated this year.
Under the housing for poor, a sum of Rs.210,000 would be paid to eligible families to build a proper house.
On
Saturday, Jayalalithaa was sworn in as chief minister after her
acquittal by the Karnataka High Court in the Rs.66 crore
disproportionate assets case.
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