92 take ill after meal at school
Around 92 school students fell sick allegedly after consuming the mid-day meal in two separate incidents in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh on the penultimate day of Chaduvala
Around 92 school students fell sick allegedly after consuming the mid-day meal in two separate incidents in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh on the penultimate day of Chaduvala
Tarannum Manjul Even as the overflowing Ghaghra river is creating havoc for school going children in Bahraich, the district administration has ensured that children in the 219 flood affected villages do not miss their classes.
Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: Come July and 12 crore children benefiting from the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme may go without food as states have nearly run out of foodgrain and fresh supply is caught up in wrangling over the mode of payment.
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore
In order to provide free meals to children studying from class one to five the Uttar Pradesh government hs given shape to the mid day meal scheme in government, municipal aided and recognised primary
Villagers of Kandwala, a sleepy village near Fazilka, have reason to seek sealing of the food meant for the mid-day meal in their primary school, as the stock has allegedly taken its toll with the dea
Daradahalli school has set an example for rest of the schools in the district by growing vegetables for Akshara dasoha in the school premises using organic method of farming. However, the credit of the success of this project goes to Ka Da Krishnaraju, Senior Veterinary Examiner, Department of Animal Husbandry.
PARADIP: Thousands of students of Jagatsinghpur district are going without eggs under the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme for more than a month as the administration dithered on finalising the supplier.
Hazaribagh, May 19: As many as 276 students of a government school fell sick today after eating a midday meal of khichdi in which a lizard was found, a week after an identical episode in Deoghar where 19 children fell sick after a midday meal.
The main objectives of the evaluation study were to assess the coverage of children under CMDM, availability of infrastructure for implementation of CMDM, improvement in attendance, retention and nutritional
KOLKATA, 19 JUNE: Children at the anganwadi centres will no longer have to satisfy themselves with khichdi and half an egg in their meals daily. The state child development department has prepared a menu
In a bid to improve the quality of midday meals served in schools, the state primary education department has issued a notice to all district education officers and superintendents of education, asking them to implement new nutritional norms, which factors in revised food costs and increased honorarium, from April 15.
DHENKANAL: Massive irregularities and rampant corruption dog the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme in the district. Sources said due to lack of monitoring, Rs 1 crore is siphoned off by unscrupulous elements under the scheme every year. Despite repeated allegations, district administration is yet bring in transparency in the scheme and fix accountability.
Bangalore: There’s piping hot bisi bele bath on their plates, garnished with khara boondi, and the children are relishing their meal — a scene to warm hearts. But in this case, the heart would skip a beat.
KENDRAPARA: Spiraling prices of food items have hit the mid-day meal(MDM) scheme in Kendrapara. As a result, many SHGs and panchayat officials associated with the MDM scheme are expressing inability to manage the show with meagre funds being provided by the State Government for the purpose.
Government schools in Punjab have reportedly not received any money for midday meals for the last several months prompting some of them to stop serving food to children under the scheme. In a few schools,
Gandhinagar: Keeping in view the high percentage of malnourished children in schools, the state government has decided to introduce fortified flour in the mid day meals supplied in government schools. Cabinet spokesperson and health and family welfare minister Jay Narayan Vyas said the fortified flour would be introduced on the birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
AHMEDABAD: The number of midday meal beneficiaries may have almost doubled in the last 24 years, but the scheme has always remained in the news either because of inferior quality of food being supplied or worms found in pulses and cereals. Midday meal programme was launched in 1984 and Gujarat was the second state to introduce it two years after Tamil Nadu did.
As many as 50 students fell ill after consuming midday meal in Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Residential High School of Ghataparthy in Thalak hobli of the taluk, on Thursday. The condition of three students is stated to be critical.
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