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Jayalalithaa orders setting up of 360 more Amma canteens

Chennai: A day after a delegation from Egypt praised “Amma Canteens” and expressed desire to replicate it in their country, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today ordered setting up of 360 more such canteens across Tamil Nadu

“Several other States have evinced keen interest in implementing the model.”

Buoyed by the very good response of the general public to the Amma canteen, new ones were set up in the the premises of big hospitals like the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here to cater to the needs of patients and general public visiting the hospital.

Mohammed Adel Rezek, Accreditation Director, Ministry of Trade and Industry (Egypt) and Ahmed Khalil, Technical Assessor, visited a canteen functioning in the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital premises yesterday.