-The Indian Express Bihar horror must focus attention on why this powerful scheme is so patchily implemented across India Even as news broke of children succumbing to the toxins in their school midday meal in Chhapra district, Bihar, political parties snatched it for their own ends. The facts of the case have been barely comprehended, parents and teachers are in shock, but the BJP was quick to blame the Nitish Kumar government...
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Did govt ignore warning signals? -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Bihar's midday meal tragedy is a case of the state not heeding the advice of monitoring institutions that have been warning HRD ministry and the state that all's not well with the flagship programme. Monitoring institution reports are discussed at programme approval meetings and referred to states. But there's no action. Monitoring bodies prepare a field report of 25% schools in a state each quarter. In...
More »Now, 20-member panel to scrutinize midday meal quality
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of the Bihar mid-day meal (MDM) tragedy that resulted in the death of more than 20 children, the HRD ministry on Thursday announced setting up a new 20-member committee to go into the quality aspect of the MDM scheme nationwide. The committee, to be headed by HRD minister M M Pallam Raju, would have secretaries of ministries of women & child development, health,...
More »When Leelabai runs the farm-P Sainath
-The Hindu In a region of poor yields, a gritty woman farmer succeeds even in years of crop failure. But high costs are depleting Vidarbha's success stories "I am the farmer, he did no farming. He only moons over his cattle, he loves those cows (even if they yield just a litre of milk each). Men hang around the village, women are in the fields." Leelabai is speaking of one of Yavatmal's most...
More »Despite concerns, government to roll out Aadhaar-based cash transfer from Jan 1 -Sidhartha & Surojit Gupta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government is all set to announce a national rollout of direct benefit transfer (DBT) of cooking gas subsidy in Aadhaar-using states from January, despite oil marketing companies pointing out several shortcomings in the current system. The decision was taken at a meeting convened by petroleum minister VeerappaMoily on Tuesday and a formal announcement is expected in the next few days, senior government officials told TOI....
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