India, April 13 -- New Delhi

The Delhi government will open subsidised canteens, named Atal Canteen after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, near major construction sites and slums for easy access to people in need of nutritious food, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Saturday.

In an interaction with mediapersons during a visit to a temple in Shalimar Bagh on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, she said that 100 such canteens will be opened across the Capital.

"We will open 100 Atal canteens so that no one remains hungry in Delhi. We are planning to open these canteens near construction sites and slums where automatic machines would be installed to provide food," the CM said.

In a phone conversation with HT, she said: "The Atal...