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UPA's food scheme rollout to take a decade: Chhattisgarh CM

-The Business Standard Said his govt had introduced a lot of reforms and had worked on the ground for eight years before enforcing a legislation New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government would need another 10 years to implement the National Food Security Ordinance. Singh, who was the chief guest at a symposium on food security here, said his government had introduced a lot...

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Lizard in midday meal, 79 kids fall ill

-The Times of India Jaipur/AJMER: It appears that the authorities in the state haven't learned any lessons from the midday meal tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 children in a school in Chhapra, Bihar. At least 79 kids of a government higher secondary school in Maliyon Ka Mohalla in Baneda town of Bhilwara district fell ill after consuming contaminated midday meal. Preliminary investigations indicate that a lizard was found in the cooked...

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No exits from these tunnels of death-Agrima Bhasin

-The Hindu     Deep-rooted caste biases and the brazen disregard by civic authorities of court judgments are the main reason for the frequent deaths of sewerage workers across the country Earlier this month, a group of men set forth to unblock a drain sewer in the basement of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in Delhi. Two of the men, Ashok and Chhotu, entered the sewer but did not return....

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Students dine dangerously -Shuchismita Chakraborty

-The Telegraph The students of the government primary school at Rajiv Nagar continued with the practice of having midday meal sitting on railway tracks on Tuesday, punching a hole in the education department's tall claim on strictly monitoring the food scheme after the death of 23 children in Saran. Seven days after the meal tragedy, the students sat down on the railway line connecting R-Block and Digha in the afternoon to have...

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Prestigious scheme but a pittance for those in charge-Rukmini S

-The Hindu For a scheme that the Central government has declared an essential arm of its educational and nutritional objectives in the last three days, both the Central and the State governments have shown a remarkable lack of concern for the 27 lakh workers, most of them women, who administer it. The tragedy that killed 23 children in Bihar's Chapra village last Tuesday has shone a rare spotlight on India's mid-day meal...

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