TN Assembly witnesses sharp exchanges over Amma Canteen, breakfast scheme
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between the ruling DMK and main opposition AIADMK over the running of Amma Canteens and the government's breakfast scheme for students. Speaking about the DMK government's breakfast scheme, launched in Madurai on September 15 last year by Chief Minister Stalin, Velumani said the AIADMK regime had already introduced such a scheme for school students in 2019. Health Minister Ma Subramanian however, said that the AIADMK government's programme had been an initiative taken forward in association with an NGO, Akshaya Patra, and was not a government scheme. Referring to how the breakfast programme was funded during the AIADMK regime, Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan said the discretionary fund provided to the Governor had been increased to Rs 5 crore in 2019 from the previous Rs 50 lakh and Akshaya Patra was given Rs 4 crore in two instalments.
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