Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Notice (8): Undefined variable: urlPrefix [APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8]latest-news-updates/with-municipal-schools-on-strike-kids-left-without-midday-meals-suraksha-p-4678510.html"/> LATEST NEWS UPDATES | With municipal schools on strike, kids left without midday meals -Suraksha P | Im4change.org
Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

With municipal schools on strike, kids left without midday meals -Suraksha P

-The Times of India

New Delhi: Zainab, Sana, Sumaila, Saima, Saina and Alisha, if not attending tuition classes, while away the day in the narrow bylanes of Hazrat Khwaja Peer Dard Colony, a stone's throw from their school, Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya on Turkman Road in Delhi. The children may be happy that they don't have to go to school, but their parents worry that the kids are missing out on nutritious midday meals in school.

With 16,000 teachers joining the striking sanitation workers in the capital agitating for the past week for the payment of their salaries by the cash-strapped civic bodies, schools run by the municipal corporations have remained shut since February 1. This has had an unexpected fallout: many families who relied on the midday meals in schools for their children are now scampering to arrange meals at home for them.

Please click here to read more.