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Changing Delhi
| A scheme to feed the poor takes off in the Capital |
Food for all Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit distributing food after the launch of a centre of Aap Ki Rasoi
In yet another attempt to make Delhi a better place to live, the Delhi Government in association with Akshaya Patra and the Neotia Foundation, has started a hunger free campaign under the Bhagidari scheme. Called Aap Ki Rasoi, the scheme requires the Delhi Government to provide daily afternoon meals to 300 poor and needy people for the coming three years across the city.
One of the centres was inaugurated recently in Shahdara in East Delhi by Welfare Minister Yoganand Shastri. “Aap Ki Rasoi is performing very well,” said the minister referring to six similar programmes running in Nizamuddin, Kashmere Gate and other areas. “We have been successful in feeding more than 50,000 children and are planning to open 18 new centres.”
His claims were however contradicted by a few protestors, who said the Government started such schemes with an eye on elections, and that the schemes evaporated as soon as the dust of elections died down. However, Pawan Kumar Singh, DGM, Northern Region, Akshaya Patra, said, “This programme is for those children who don’t have a guardian or are physically handicapped, and don’t have food to eat or even if they eat, they pick it up from the garbage.”
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