Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scheme for the poor under which cooked meals will be available at a nominal cost of Rs 5. Cooked meal \u2013 to include rice, dal, vegetables and an egg \u2013 will be available across the state in some outlets.<\/p>\n
The scheme, titled \u201cMaa\u201d, was virtually launched by the CM from the state secretariat, Nabanna. On its first day, the kitchen opened in 13 wards whereas 16 common kitchens have been set up. While inaugurating the \u2018Maa\u2019 project Banerjee said, \u201cWe respect our mothers.\u00a0We are proud of them.\u201d Self-help groups will operate the kitchens from 1-3 pm every\u00a0day and such kitchens\u00a0will be set up everywhere in the state gradually, Banerjee said.<\/p>\n
Ward coordinator, Anindya Kishore Raut\u00a0said that it cost Rs 15 per plate to prepare food on the first day.\u00a0But ordinary people will be given this food for\u00a05 rupees, the\u00a0rest will be\u00a0compensated\u00a0with government subsidy.\u00a0It will be available to people on a first come first serve basis. During the presentation of the state\u2019s interim Budget on February 5, the Chief Minister said Rs 100 crore was being set aside for the \u2018Maa\u2019 scheme. The scheme would gradually be extended to other towns and cities in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scheme for the poor under which cooked meals will be available at a nominal cost of Rs 5. Cooked meal \u2013 to include rice, dal, vegetables and an egg \u2013 will be available across the state in some outlets. The scheme, titled \u201cMaa\u201d, was virtually launched by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":12755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,274,583,301],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-mamata-banerjee","9":"tag-social-security-schemes","10":"tag-top-story","11":"tag-west-bengal-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12752"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=12752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}