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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Rice, wheat allotted for midday meal can't be sold in open market'

'Rice, wheat allotted for midday meal can't be sold in open market'

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published Published on Feb 24, 2011   modified Modified on Feb 24, 2011
The deputy director of the education department, Anil Powar, has in a statement to the Panaji police said that rice and wheat allotted on a monthly basis to self help groups under the midday meal scheme can't be sold in the open market, police sources said.

The police recorded Powar's statement after a diary seized from Devendra Shinde-accused of selling rice from fair price shops in the open market-revealed that he used to purchase wheat and rice on a monthly basis from self help groups operating in Bardez taluka. The education department has given these Bardez self help groups the contract to provide midday meals to primary and upper primary school children. It was revealed that the same was subsequently being sold in the open market.

"After we received a vague letter from education director Celsa Pinto, in which she failed to clarify whether rice and wheat allotted on a monthly basis to the self help groups under the midday meal scheme can be sold in the market, we called the assistant director of education, who is in charge of the midday meal scheme and recorded his statement. He confirmed that it cannot be sold," said a police source.

About 83 self-help groups in Goa supply food to schools under the midday meal scheme. Police suspect that about eight self help groups in Bardez taluka alone could be involved in the racket where the entire quota of rice and wheat to be released to the self help groups by the mamlatdar under the midday meal scheme every month is being taken from the civil food supplies godown by the accused and sold in the open market. Police have also found names of a few self help group representatives in Shinde's diary which has been seized under a panchnama.

Every month, the state nodal officer of the education department, who is entrusted with the smooth functioning of the midday meal scheme, writes to the mamlatdar asking him to release approximately 20 to 30 quintals of rice and wheat each for the month to each mahila mandal under the midday meal scheme. The mamlatdar grants permission to the mahila mandal to collect the quota from the government godown. But instead of collecting the quota, the same is being sold by the mahila mandals to Shinde at Rs 11 per kg of rice and Rs 10 per kg of wheat, police investigations have revealed.

Under the midday meal scheme, the students are supplied either sheera, pulao or pao bhaji. Sources in the education department said that though no wheat product is supplied to the children, every month they have to release wheat to the mahila mandals as per the directions of the central government.

The Times of India, 9 February, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Rice-wheat-allotted-for-midday-meal-cant-be-sold-in-open-market/articleshow/7456344.cms


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