Tamil Nadu to have 360 more ‘Amma Unavagams’

In a bid to widen access to low-cost quality food, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has ordered opening of 360 more “Amma Unavagams,” the popular eateries, across Tamil Nadu. Among them 200 eateries would be set up in the Chennai Corporation limits. 

With this, the State would soon have 654 such canteens serving quality food at affordable rates. 

  ‘Amma Unavagams’launched on Feb 19,2013 benefits the poor, daily wage earners, labourers and migrant workers the most

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa directed that each of the 200 wards in the Chennai Corporation have an additional Amma Unavagam.Besides these -

• 27 such eateries at the Government Headquarters Hospitals in 27 districts
• 129 eateries in 124 municipalities
• one each in the recently-created Dindigul and Thanjavur Corporations and 
• one each in Madurai and Coimbatore Corporations 

are to be inaugurated. 

The Madurai Corporation boasts of 11 eateries while the other city corporations in the State have 10 each, making up a total of 294 ‘Amma canteens’ all over the State at present

An estimated 2.5 lakh people visit and partake of food at the 203 eateries in Chennai city every day. That apart, the ‘Amma canteens’ provide livelihood to more than 5,000 staff involved in various capacities