AIADMK will foot the food bill in Amma canteens in Salem: CM

Food at low-cost Amma canteens will

be served free of cost in Salem district from Monday with the ruling AIADMK's local units deciding to bear the cost in a bid to help daily wage earners and others, who largely depend on the eateries, during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The decision, which will be a great boon to these sections whose livelihood has been hit by the lockdown, was announced by AIADMK joint co-ordinator and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Sunday.

"The canteens are largely used by daily wage earners and indigent people and they do not have adequate earnings due to the coronavirus situation," he said in a party release.

He said the urban and rural party units in the district, his native, will bear the entire cost of food served at mornings and noon in the canteens, a pet scheme of late AIADMK supremo and chief minister Jayalalithaa, who was fondly called "Amma" by her followers.

Besides, the party will provide 10 kilo rice and masks to each of the about ..