10-member panel under George to make Indira Canteens a reality

The state government on Thursday formed a 10-member committee under Bengaluru Development Minister K J George to open Indira Canteens in all the 198 wards of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

Other members of the committee are Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader, Bengaluru Mayor G Padmavathi, Additional Chief Secretary (Urban Development Department), chairpersons of BWSSB and Bescom, commissioners of BDA and BBMP, BBMP special commissioner (finance), and deputy secretary-3 in the urban development department. The government also decided that all Indira Canteens will have a uniform design which the BBMP commissioner will approve shortly.

According to the committee, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, which provides midday meals to schoolchildren, can bid for the project if it agrees to using onion and garlic in the food preparation. The committee also discussed the popular demand for Idli and Vada for breakfast.

Revival of lakes
Speaking to journalists, George insisted that the government had undertaken many remedial measures to improve the condition of the city’s lakes much before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) issued the order on Bellandur and Varthur lakes. He said the government had made sewage treatment plants mandatory for industries in the upstream of Bellandur lake which had been fenced by the BDA.
DH News Service