Hunger Movement

Less than a week after Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda launched the Mukhya Mantri Dal-Bhaat Yojna, there’s been demand to increase the number of lunch centres.

Less than a week after Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda launched the Mukhya Mantri Dal-Bhaat Yojna, there’s been demand to increase the number of lunch centres. More than half the state’s 30 million population live in poverty. Under the scheme, the state provides lunch— a portion of 200 gm of rice, lentil soup and chokha (salted mashed potato)—at Rs 5 to more than 40,000 poor citizens across 100 food centres. “The aim of the scheme,” Munda said, “is to help people work and think for the state instead of thinking of ways how to fill one’s stomach.”