Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Plea Seeking Setting Up Of Community Kitchens Across India
NDTV
The Supreme Court had on October 18, 2019, favoured setting up of community kitchens, saying the country needs this kind of a system to tackle the problem of hunger.
The Supreme Court today agreed to list for an urgent hearing the plea seeking directions to all states and union territories (UTs) to formulate a scheme for setting up of community kitchens across the country to combat hunger and malnutrition.
A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli was urged by lawyer Ashima Mandla that the issue becomes more important in view of the ongoing Covid pandemic in the country.
"I was heading the bench which had issued a notice on it," the Chief Justice of India said while fixing the PIL for hearing on October 27.
The Supreme Court, on February 17 last year, had imposed an additional cost of Rs 5 lakh each on six states for not complying with its directions to file their affidavits on the PIL, which sought formulation of the scheme to set up community kitchens for the poor.
