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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Midday Meals in Schools Only After 100% Attendance': Delhi Govt Responds to Legal Notice

'Midday Meals in Schools Only After 100% Attendance': Delhi Govt Responds to Legal Notice

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published Published on Feb 21, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 24, 2022

-TheWire.in

The Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan sent a legal notice to the Delhi government highlighting that midday meals in schools did not resume even though schools reopened for physical classes on February 14.

New Delhi: The Delhi government has said that the doorstep delivery of dry ration kits will continue rather than hot cooked midday meals till 100% attendance is achieved in Delhi government schools after the Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan (DRRAA), an organisation working on food rights, sent a legal notice to the Delhi government and three municipal corporations in the national capital.

The DRRAA notice said that hot-cooked midday meals in schools did not resume even though schools reopened for physical classes for Classes I to VIII on February 14, following the improvement in the Covid-19 situation.

In the notice, served through senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, DRRAA said that a hot cooked midday meal is the “right of every child” studying in schools run by local bodies and government-aided schools.

“When schools have resumed physical classes and activities for students, there is no reason for not restarting provision of hot cooked midday meals in the schools,” the DRRAA said.

‘Extremely erratic supply of dry ration’

The legal notice alleged that the implementation of ‘food security allowance’ in lieu of hot cooked meals – when schools were closed until recently beginning in March 2020 due to the pandemic – had been “extremely erratic”.

“This is despite the multiple advisories and guidelines of the Government of India and the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court directing that proper nutrition be provided to children through this period,” it said.

It also alleged that for schools run by the Delhi government initially, only a paltry amount of cash transfer was provided for cooking costs, and no dry ration was supplied.

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TheWire.in, 21 february, 2022, https://thewire.in/rights/as-schools-reopen-delhi-govt-gets-legal-notice-for-not-resuming-midday-meals


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