Annadhanam kitchens attached to 54 temples in the State have cooked and distributed over 13.5 lakh packets of food, from March 30, to those in need. Two temples — the Murugan temple in Tiruttani and the Narasimhar temple in Sholingar — agreed to supply us food. Temples have spent ₹2.25 crore on supplying food to the poor, so far. They have supplied mixed rice varieties like tomato rice, lemon rice, vegetable rice and tamarind rice, since the items are easy to cook, pack and distribute. Usually, temple kitchens serve over 65,000 persons, every day.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2020 18:08 UTC