-Down to Earth Schools, Anganwadis find it difficult to meet nutritional needs of children, mothers, as a result Schools and Anganwadi centres (AWC) are finding it difficult to effectively run programmes that address the nutritional needs of children and mothers. This is because the government has not revised costing norms for mid-day meals despite inflation, teachers and activists said. There is an urgent need to re-evaluate the cooking cost of programmes such as...

-OutlookIndia.com The new welfarism as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken in early 1990s is yet to ensure that all citizens receive enough nutritious food In December last year, Anjali—a student of MNM Government Girls School at Gangavati in Karnataka’s Koppal district—vented out her anger against deprivation of basic nutritious food, a chronic problem that plagues more than a quarter of India’s total population. In a viral rant, she called the bluff...

-ThePrint.in The state government had last year introduced the scheme in seven districts but faced stiff opposition from Lingayat, Jain and other communities. New Delhi: In order to tackle malnutrition among children, the BJP government in Karnataka is planning to expand its initiative of serving eggs in mid-day meals to more schools across the district. The state government had last year introduced the scheme in seven districts of north Karnataka, namely Bidar, Raichur,...

-Telangana.com India’s school meals programme is ubiquitous, helping deliver food to millions. It faces threats from multiple angles. It would be hard to find a larger or more universal school meals programme than that in India. Until Covid-19 hit, more than 87% of children in rural government schools were being served the ‘Mid-Day Meal’. At last count, the scheme covered 118 million children. The benefits of school meals are well established, but government...

-The Telegraph She demanded that nutritional food be provided to kids below three years who don’t come to school under the Integrated Child Development Scheme New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday requested the Narendra Modi government to immediately resume the midday meal scheme, arguing that children had been the worst affected by the pandemic both in terms of education and food. Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha,...