-NDTV New Delhi: The mid-day meal scheme, the world's largest such scheme, was started with an aim to provide safe and nutritious meal to India's school children so that they grow up strong and bright. But instead, what our future generation is being fed is grain crawling with worms, flies and even lizards. A hot cooked nutritious meal was also thought to have been a selling point to persuade poor families to...
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Delhi's mid-day meal dilemma: 80 per cent of the food cooked for students is sub-standard -Neha Pushkarna
-India Today A Chhapra like tragedy is waiting to happen in the capital. Delhi has made a mess of its Mid-day Meal Scheme: only 50 of the 280 samples taken in 2012-13 from centralised kitchens run by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to provide midday meals in government schools in the capital met prescribed standards. In other words, more than 80 per cent of the food cooked for primary school students from Class 1 through...
More »The chimera of Dalit capitalism -Nissim Mannathukkaren
-The Hindu The recent launch of the first Dalit venture fund occasions an examination of the moral and ethical emptiness of capitalism History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics B.R. Ambedkar If only Milind Kamble, founder of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) and Chandra Bhan Prasad, Dalit thinker, columnist and DICCI mentor, had imbibed the wisdom of Manning Marable's How Capitalism Underdeveloped...
More »The costs of no food security -Ashutosh Varshney
-The Indian Express India is at the point where a low income democracy cannot afford to ignore the hungry Is India's food security ordinance supportable? The debate has been vigorous. It will help to separate the questions of process from those of principle. Whether an ambitious scheme of this magnitude should have been brought in as an executive ordinance or as a new law after parliamentary debate, is basically a procedural question. It...
More »When expedience trumps expertise-Ramachandra Guha
-The Hindu Uttarakhand reiterates that our rulers have contemptuous disregard for the advice of the best scientists and would rather listen to contractors and builders to whom they are beholden for funds In the early 1980s, while doing research on the environmental history of Uttarakhand, I sometimes visited the library of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun. Most of the journals in the library dealt with geology and earth sciences,...
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