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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Aadhaar Order on Mid-Day Meal Denounced as 'Attack On Children's Right to Food'

Aadhaar Order on Mid-Day Meal Denounced as 'Attack On Children's Right to Food'

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published Published on Mar 6, 2017   modified Modified on Mar 6, 2017
-TheWire.in

The Right to Food Campaign responds to the HRD ministry’s recent mandate on linking Aadhaar with the mid-day meal scheme.

New Delhi:
According to a notification issued by the human resource development ministry last week, children at schools across the country will now be required to either register or have an Aadhaar number in order to avail of the government’s mid-day meal scheme.

Additionally, as per the government’s notification, any cooks or helpers who work to administer the midday meal scheme will also be required to sign up and provide an Aadhaar number. The HRD ministry has allowed students until June 30 to enrol for an Aadhaar card.

In response to the imposition of Aadhaar on the mid-day meal scheme, the Right to Food Campaign has issued a statement opposing the move, calling it is an attack on children’s right to food and demanding the immediate withdrawal of the notification.

The Wire has reproduced the Right to Food Campaign’s statement below:

The right to food campaign strongly opposes the central government’s move to make Aadhaar compulsory for children under the mid-day meal scheme in government schools. This is nothing but an attempt to coerce people to enrol their children under Aadhaar.

School meals are an important entitlement of Indian children, legally enforceable under Supreme Court orders as well as under the National Food Security Act. Numerous studies show that India’s mid-day meal scheme has made an important contribution to higher school attendance, better child nutrition and more effective learning. Mid-day meals also help to break the barriers of class and caste by imparting to children of diverse backgrounds a habit of sharing meals.

No conditionalities can be imposed on this critical entitlement of Indian children. Making Aadhaaar compulsory for the mid-day meal would serve no purpose, and is bound to disrupt instead of helping this important programme. Further, this move is a violation of Supreme Court orders.

In a series of orders, the Supreme Court has made it clear that Aadhaar cannot be made compulsory for any services to which people are otherwise entitled. It has also made it clear that the Aadhaar Act does not supersede these orders, until such time as the court settles the issue of compatibility of Aadhaar with the right to privacy.

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TheWire.in, 4 March, 2017, https://thewire.in/113950/aadhaar-mid-day-meal-right-food-campaign-statement/


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