Janakeeya hotels to the rescue of lockdown-hit
The Hindu
At ₹20 for basic meals, they serve 15,000 meals a day on an average
Shortly after then Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac announced the opening of 1,000 Janakeeya hotels by the Kudumbashree in his budget last year, the State went into a lockdown following the outbreak of the pandemic. Thus, even before they could start operations, the proposed Janakeeya hotels had to adapt to a new challenge and got launched as community kitchens. They did an admirable job throughout the lockdown feeding beleaguered people facing hunger. Once the lockdown was lifted, they metamorphosed into their original avatar as Janakeeya hotels conceived as part of the larger goal of hunger-free Kerala by serving meals at as little as ₹20 of which half was being subsidised by the State government. Ernakulam now has 107 such hotels, 78 in rural areas and the rest in urban areas.More Related News