Revealed: MPs are getting cheapest buffet in parliament canteen

The proposals to review the food prices are placed before the Joint Committee on Food management in Parliament House complex with prices being revised on December 24, 2002, April 4, 2003 and December 14, 2010. "It refers to shocking RTI response revealing that certain food-items like stew-vegetables at Parliament canteens are sold even at just one-tenth of cost of raw-materials used (sale-price Rs 4 against raw-material cost of Rs 41.25) in preparing these with preparation-cost, staff-salary and other overheads not included in such cost," Agrawal said.He said charity should begin at home when Union government is rightly concentrating on cutting away subsidy-regime. Subsidy on food-items in Parliament-canteen should be immediately abolished. "Salaries and allowances available to Parliamentarians are sufficient to afford normal food-prices without subsidy especially when even people below poverty-line have to spend much more on food-prices," he said.