Overview
- The Chief Minister launched the programme on November 15 at Kalaivanar Arangam for Greater Chennai Corporation sanitation workers, with expansion to all corporations and municipalities from December 6.
- Meals will be nutritious and served warm in clean insulated lunch boxes at buildings owned by local civic bodies located near workers’ workplaces.
- The government announced 300 sq. ft. lounges with changing rooms and restroom facilities for sanitation staff in every Chennai ward.
- Stalin distributed welfare benefits, including housing, and said additional worker demands would be taken up in phased steps.
- He praised sanitation workers’ role in restoring cities after floods and cyclones and said the initiative aims to safeguard their dignity, including in a post on X.