Chennai: Chennai Corporation council on Saturday discussed providing herbal food at Amma canteens.
Raising the issue in last council meet, AIADMK councillor Sukumar Babu informed the council that Amma canteens benefited mostly the middle class and the poor and at present there is a good demand for herbal food.
To start with the corporation can include herbal snacks and soups in the evening hours and this should not be subsidised unlike the other food items.
This herbal food menu will help the corporation to make extra revenue and decrease the deficit in operating Amma canteens. The move will also benefit the upper middle class public looking for herbal food at a reasonable price, he said.
Replying to this, mayor Duraisamy explained that Amma canteen was a state subject and a pet project of state chief minister.
The council will take up the issue with the state, he said. Provision of nila vembu (herbal drink) and Papaya leaf syrup for low lying areas has helped the corporation to keep dengue at bay and it is only the DMK that is campaigning for Dengue. “I wanted to know that whether the DMK is ready to prove the prevalence of dengue in Chennai,” mayor said in his reply speech.
