Indira Rasoi Yojana

Key Facts:-

• A new kitchen scheme named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will shortly be launched in Rajasthan for providing nutritious food to the poor and needy twice a day at concessional rates. 
• The State government will spend ₹100 crores every year on the scheme’s implementation
• Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the Indira Rasoi Yojana would fulfill the State government’s promise of “no one sleeps hungry”. 
• The local non­government organizations will be roped in for running the scheme and its effective monitoring will be done with the help of information technology.
• The previous Bharatiya Janata Party government in the State had also launched a subsidized meal scheme, Annapuran Rasoi Yojana, in December 2016, offering breakfast and lunch for ₹5 and ₹8 respectively on the lines of Tamil Nadu’s Amma Unavagam (Mother’s Canteen)