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Belagavi: BJP seeks probe on Indira Canteens serving less quantity of food

  •   Mon, Nov 20 2017 04:13:40 PM

Daijiworld Media Network – Belagavi (RJP)

Belagavi, Nov 20: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar on Monday, November 20, sought a probe into reports that Indira canteens were serving food below the stipulated quantity specified by the government.

Shettar made the demand while participating in a discussion in the Assembly.

Shettar said that while the quantity stipulated per plate of lunch is 300 grams of rice, 150 grams of sambar and 50 grams of chutney, what is served was much less that the specified quantity. “This leaves the consumers dissatisfied,” he alleged.


Jagadish Shettar

"Media reports have exposed that those who have bagged contracts to prepare food at Indira canteens are cheating consumers by serving them less than the stipulated quantity. The government should immediately order a probe into the matter," he demanded.

 
  

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  • A.QUADROS, Kundapur

    Tue, Nov 21 2017

    Did Shatter eat in Indira Canteen or he relies on his chela's to raise the subject in Vidhana Sabha to waste valuable time? or he probably can't stomach the success of poor man's canteen.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Tue, Nov 21 2017

    Let us have a big heart to appreciate the good work of the government instead of unwanted criticism

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  • JK, Udupi

    Tue, Nov 21 2017

    Tax payers money is used for this canteen and Siddu and Congress thinks that they are paying it from their pocket. We will know the truth next year on Indira Canteens.

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  • Clifford, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    BJP now days can't find anything against Siddu so they are coming out with stupid statements like this. These canteens are meant for poor people and not for BJP fat cats who looted our state when they were in government.

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  • NM, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    While serving food, if you tell 'svalpa haki', you will get lesser than normal quantity. If some people are not able to eat the entire '300 grams of rice, 150 grams of sambar and 50 grams of chutney' then serving slightly less will not destroy their satisfaction but will indeed save food.

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  • SMR, karkala

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Then Gujarat CM Modi has attributed his state's high rates of malnutrition to vegetarianism and figure-conscious Gujarati girls.
    In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, an American news daily, Modi said, "The middle class is more beauty-conscious than health-conscious-that is a challenge."
    "If a mother tells her daughter to have milk, they'll have a fight-she'll tell her mother, 'I won't drink milk. I'll get fat.'" he told the daily.
    In July 2015, the MP government banned the protein-rich egg in the state’s anganwadi or pre-school centres that cater to children from poor families. It also banned it from the mid-day meal scheme in government schools.It was reported that MP CM Chouhan took the decision at the behest of the influential Jain leaders.
    Earlier, India used to define the poverty line based on a method defined by a task force in 1979. It was based on expenditure for buying food worth 2,400 calories in rural areas, and 2,100 calories in urban areas. In 2011, the Suresh Tendulkar Committee defined the poverty line on the basis of monthly spending on food, education, health, electricity and transport. A person who spends Rs. 27.2 in rural areas and Rs. 33.3 in urban areas a day are defined as living below the poverty line. For a family of five that spends less than Rs. 4,080 and Rs. 5,000 in rural and urban areas respectively is considered below the poverty line. This has been criticised for fixing the poverty line too low. According to a committee headed by former Reserve Bank governor C Rangarajan, there were 363 million people, or 29.5% of India’s 1.2 billion people, who lived in poverty in 2011-12. The Rangarajan panel considered people living on less than Rs. 32 a day in rural areas and Rs. 47 a day in urban areas as poor.
    The recent debates do reveal that the BJP as a party in regime loves the ban as a weapon, be it food, books, film, or body behaviour. Amma canteen in the verge of closure after her political murder. Is Indira Canteens next?
    JaiHind

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  • M Shetty, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Indira canteen is only for poor and they are happy. Why JS feels zealous,. Let him donate part of looted wealth to the poor instead of crtising.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    If BJP wins in 2018, Jagadish Shettar will provide free lunch at Yeddyurappa Canteens ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Hajmola free with Lunch at Indira Canteen ...

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  • Kiran, Mangalore/Bangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Its for poor and malnourished people not for well fed buffaloes who are asking for the probe. Probably he forgot the episode of turning Indira canteen into chinese food joint by importing cockroaches.

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  • Roshan Rodrigues, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Did Yedurappas stomach full after looting Karnataka? these people talking about the food did they gave food to needy?

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  • JNB, Mangalore-Mumbai

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Siddu hit the nail at right place through Indira canteen.
    Now BJP left with no other options than just criticism!

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  • suhail, udp/dxb

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    The governing Congress party in the southern Indian state of Karnataka recently set up Indira canteens in the state capital, Bangalore, which serve more than 200,000 cheap meals every day. The BBC's Geeta Pandey joins the queue to sample the treats and comes back more than satisfied.
    It's just after 07:00 and a crowd has already begun to gather outside a squat building, located near the bustling City Market.
    At 07:30, the gate is thrown open and the crowds rush in. There's some jostling but soon people fall into line, impatient bodies pressed into each other.
    The queue moves quickly. Men and women walk up to a small window, hand over their money and receive one or two green plastic tokens, which are then exchanged at the counter for food.
    They pick up their bright yellow trays and move to a table in the room or outside in the courtyard to eat.
    I too buy my tokens and join the queue for breakfast. On the menu are idlis (savoury cakes traditionally eaten across south India for breakfast), pongal (a popular rice dish) and some coconut chutney.
    The food is fresh, warm, flavourful and delicious. And the best part? Each dish costs a mere five rupees, or about 13 cents, which is as good as free.
    Since they opened their doors on 16 August, the canteens named after Indira Gandhi - the Indian prime minister assassinated in 1984 - have been drawing in the crowds.
    The idea is clearly borrowed from the hugely popular and successful Amma canteens, started by J Jayalalitha, the late chief minister of the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. I ate at one Amma canteen last year and the food was good. At Indira canteen, it's even better.
    BBC REPORT

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  • prem, moodbidri

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Did Shutter requested probe on putting Jirale in break fast???

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  • santhu, Mumbai/udupi

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    If Indeera Canteen is really helping poor to have daily quality food in cheap price then one should not even think of criticize it. and about quantity they have to serve food according to the price tagged.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    y Bjp rich people in herds r eating in indira canteen??????

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  • Gangaram, Moodbidri

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    another shameless guy.... until now they cried about quality now suddenly quantity!!!

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  • Mohammed, Khobar

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Cheap people have cheap mentality... Have problems in everything what congress does...

    They will do all wrongs still they are right for them..

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  • geoffrey, hat hill

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    The cockroach trick blew up on their faces, now they are after quantity. Lage raho

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  • NISHAR AHMED, Mangalore / KUWAIT

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    I LIKE BJP (AS OPPOSITION ALWAYS), WORKING GOOD.

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  • ABDUL NARAYAN DSOUZA, MUMBAI+KARNATAKA+MANGALORE

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    IT IS FOR POORS NOT YOU...

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  • Flavian dsouza, chik/bengaluru

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    Indira canteens are a big hit and BJP looks very worried about it .

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  • Rita, Germany

    Mon, Nov 20 2017

    @Flavian D souza,Bangalore,why do you think worried?Because of BJP wanted to open free food ?One has always try to find a stone in buttermilk?And couldnt ?

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