Tiruvallur (Tamil Nadu), February 9 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched the expansion of the free meal scheme for sanitation workers in urban local bodies across the state on Monday.
He said that this was the first such initiative in the country.
The nutritious three-meal-a-day scheme was launched on November 15 in Chennai to benefit over 31,000 sanitation workers in the corporation areas, aiming to improve the health and working conditions of employees who start their work early in the morning.
Under the scheme implemented in all the 200 wards of the Chennai Corporation, the workers are provided meals in tiffin boxes.
On Monday, Stalin launched the expanded program and took selfies with the sanitation workers at a government function held about 41 km from Chennai.