Indira Canteen Restart: check breakfast, lunch and dinner new price

The Indira Canteen, which used to fill the stomachs of wage labourers, the poor and the needy, had reached the point of closure due to lack of proper maintenance for the past few years. Some places were completely closed. Indira Canteen Restart: check breakfast, lunch and dinner new price.

Now that the Congress government is coming into existence, preparations have been made for the re-opening of the Indira Canteen. The Congress government in Karnataka has restarted Indira Canteen across the state.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, during his first press conference after winning the election earlier this month, said he will revive the neglected Indira Canteens. He promised to restart the canteens within a month.

The canteen provides food to the poor and marginalised at subsidised rates. It serves breakfast for Rs 5 while lunch and dinner is served for a mere Rs 10. The Congress party during its election campaign in Karnataka last month had promised to bring back the canteen if they were voted back in power.

The canteen was started in the previous Congress government in the state but stopped after BJP regained power. During Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s campaign in the state, he met a few food delivery employees who requested him to restart the canteen as inflation was hurting their pockets.

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While the tendering process will be launched soon, 163 out of 175 Indira Canteens were already operational.