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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why are Karnataka's schoolchildren unhappy with the mid-day meal? -Archana Nathan

Why are Karnataka's schoolchildren unhappy with the mid-day meal? -Archana Nathan

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published Published on Jun 2, 2019   modified Modified on Jun 2, 2019
-The Hindu

Iskcon’s Akshaya Patra Foundation refuses to add onion or garlic to the meals it provides even though the children crave the familiar taste

Tabarak, a 14-year-old boy in Devarjeevanahalli, a locality in central Bengaluru, would rather walk home at lunch break to quickly grab a bite than eat the free meal served at school. “He finds the school food too bland,” says his mother, standing in the narrow passage of their house. “He says the saaru is too watery and the sambhar too pheeka,” says Tabarak’s grandmother from inside, where she is cutting onions for lunch.

Tabarak studies at the government school up the road from his house where food is served six days of the week by Iskcon’s Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) as part of the Central Government’s mid-day meal (MDM) scheme.

A few blocks away, 11-year-old Sabitha is too shy to say much. Her male classmates dismiss the question about whether they like the food at school, but Sabitha, hiding behind her elder sister, finally ventures: “It’s not very good. I prefer to eat at home because the food is tastier.”

“She gets to eat chicken and eggs at home,” says one of her friends, prompting Sabitha to seek further refuge in the folds of her sister’s dupatta.

Most children in Yelahanka’s LBS Colony in north Bengaluru seem to think the same. For instance, Snehapriya, 14, starves through the day at school and only eats when she comes home. “On some days, she’ll insist on taking a dabba from home but she won’t eat the food served in school,” her sister says. “She says she doesn’t like the taste — even if it is bisibelebhath or pulao.” At Snehapriya’s school too, the food is catered by APF.

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The Hindu, 31 May, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/society/why-are-karnatakas-schoolchildren-unhappy-with-the-mid-day-meal/article27378176.ece?homepage=true


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