CHENNAI: Complaining that the quality of food served for them under the free breakfast programme was unfit for human consumption, cleanliness workers from Tirunelveli Municipal Corporation dumped the food in garbage bins.

Like their counterparts across Tamil Nadu, more than 750 cleanliness workers of Tirunelveli Corporation have been getting breakfast as announced by Chief Minister MK Stalin last month, said a Maalaimalar report.

According to them, the quality of food was satisfactory in the initial days, but it deteriorated thereafter. The good being served in the recent days was unfit for consumption, the workers alleged.

On Monday (January 26), breakfast distributed to the workers in the Thachanallur zone of the Tirunelveli Corporation reportedly emitted a foul smell. Angered by the poor quality, the workers refused to consume the food and dumped it into nearby garbage bins.

The workers further stated that substandard food has been supplied consistently over the past few days, leaving them with no option but to discard the meals provided.