-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A close scrutiny of the accounts of the Bihar government shouldn't surprise you about the MidDay Meal (MDM) tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 20 children last week. To make matters worse, there were serious infrastructure inadequacies in government hospitals meant to treat children who had taken ill. The level of Bihar government's lethargy and callousness is far more serious than what is known...
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Bengal oil, taste notice -Mita Mukherjee
-The Telegraph Kolkata: The Bengal government is set to issue fresh guidelines asking primary school heads to taste the food before each MidDay Meal and making ISI-certified oil a must for cooking. In the current system followed in most schools, the cook and a teacher are supposed to taste and check the food before it is served to students. The government wants to strengthen the quality check in the wake of the midday...
More »Food lab mission for safer MidDay Meal-ASRP Mukesh
-The Telegraph What happened in Bihar won't happen in Jharkhand, promise mandarins. Jolted out of slumber by the MidDay Meal tragedy at a government primary school in Saran that claimed 23 children earlier this week, the lone food-testing laboratory of the state in Ranchi is considering an expansion of its ambit to cover all cradle kitchens. If lab officials are to be believed, a proposal to keep regular tabs on MidDay Meals being...
More »Don’t crunch this lunch -Reetika Khera
-The Times of India The tragic incident in Bihar has raised questions about the MidDay Meal (MDM) scheme, an otherwise popular and successful programme. Laggard states should use this as an opportunity to catch up with others and protect the scheme against emerging dangers. For those unfamiliar with it, the MDM scheme is a huge programme that today feeds more than 11 crore children every day. It is also a very popular...
More »Sonia upset at MidDay Meal lapses
-The Telegraph Sonia Gandhi has questioned the laxity in monitoring midday-meal quality in the wake of the deaths of over 20 children in a Bihar school. The UPA chairperson called Union human resource development (HRD) minister M.M. Pallam Raju yesterday and expressed strong displeasure over the monitoring of the programme on which the Centre spends around Rs 10,000 crore a year, a source said. She said she was saddened by the death of...
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