Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Modi Highlights Ambikapur’s Garbage Café on Mann Ki Baat

The municipal program trades collected plastic for hot meals to tackle plastic waste.

Overview

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the Ambikapur Municipal Corporation’s initiative during the 127th episode of his radio address on Sunday.
  • The café provides a lunch or dinner for one kilogram of plastic and a breakfast for half a kilogram.
  • It has operated near the town bus stand since 2019 under the slogan “More the waste, better the taste.”
  • Funding comes from the corporation’s sanitation budget, with meals intended for ragpickers, low-income residents, and street children.
  • Coverage notes continued local operations at a modest daily scale with no announced expansion or policy change.