Delhi Funds 2025: What Are Atal Canteens Introduced By CM Rekha Gupta? Who Will Profit? | India Information

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta has allotted Rs 100 crore for establishing Atal Canteens in metropolis slums to offer nutritious and subsidised meals at 100 places. The BJP has promised to set-up backed canteens within the metropolis if voted to energy. This was the BJP authorities’s maiden finances within the state after being voted to energy earlier this yr, ousting Aam Aadmi Get together. 

What Are Atal Canteens?

Atal Canteens are government-supported meals retailers arrange in varied Indian states to offer low-cost, nutritious meals to underprivileged communities. Named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, these canteens intention to fight starvation and help low-income people by providing meals at extremely backed charges.

Impressed by profitable fashions like Tamil Nadu’s Amma Canteens and Karnataka’s Indira Canteens, this scheme seeks to make sure meals safety for economically weaker sections, making nutritious meals accessible and reasonably priced.

In Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) included the Atal Canteen Scheme in its 2025 election manifesto, promising to ascertain canteens in each slum cluster. 

Who Will Profit?

The Atal Canteens will likely be opened close to slums, thus principally benefitting the slum dwellers and daily-wage employees. Below this initiative, folks in want would have entry to sizzling, cooked meals for simply Rs 5. Nevertheless, anybody can go to the canteen to get the backed meals.