-The Indian Express The Aadhaar is no solution to the problems of the Midday Meal Scheme The Aadhaar scheme was initiated by the UPA government about seven years ago. But it is to the credit of the current Narendra Modi-led government that it saw the potential of Aadhar as an enabler of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes and used it for the dispersal of subsidies. But the government has got it wrong...
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There Is A Place For Aadhaar, But The Mid Day Meal Is Not It -Rukmini S
-HuffingtonPost.in This is a way to force Aadhaar enrolment, not fix the scheme. Children will suffer. I am not usually an opponent of Aadhaar, India's controversial scheme to give a unique identification number to all residents of India, with their biometric information seeded into it. Any fears that I may have about privacy or surveillance or misuse are overridden by my experience that what the poor want is to be counted, not...
More »Aadhaar Order on Mid-Day Meal Denounced as 'Attack On Children's Right to Food'
-TheWire.in The Right to Food Campaign responds to the HRD ministry’s recent mandate on linking Aadhaar with the mid-day meal scheme. New Delhi: According to a notification issued by the human resource development ministry last week, children at schools across the country will now be required to either register or have an Aadhaar number in order to avail of the government’s mid-day meal scheme. Additionally, as per the government’s notification, any cooks or...
More »550 students in Attapadi are malnourished: Min
-The Times of India Thiruvananthapuram: A medical examination of 8,200 tribal children in 33 schools in Attapadi has revealed that 550 of them are having haemoglobin count less than the preferred level, minister for SC, ST, backward classes and law A K Balan said. Replying to a submission by MLA N Shamsuddin, the minister said that the 550 students had their haemoglobin count less than 10g, against the normal value of 12g....
More »Panel frowns on static scholarship amount -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has voiced shock that a scholarship for underprivileged meritorious students had not been revised since the scheme was launched in 2008, leaving it at less than half of what households now spend on average on a higher secondary student. According to a survey on social consumption, households spend Rs 12,619 a year on a plus-2 student's schooling, while the yearly amount under the National Means-cum-Merit...
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