Panchayat Raj Half a cheer for democracy
There is a great push to make panchayats the fulcrum of rural development in India. But 16 years after the third tier of government was created, it has not got its due.
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A green patch in the desert
After initial hiccups, the mid day meal scheme has taken off well bringing under its wing a whopping 70 lakh children in all the 32 districts of Rajasthan. Battling starvation deaths amidst
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A green patch in the desert
After initial hiccups, the mid day meal scheme has taken off well bringing under its wing a whopping 70 lakh children in all the 32 districts of Rajasthan. Battling starvation deaths amidst
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Mid-day meal scheme launch on Jan 2
The mid-day meal scheme for schoolchildren will be launched all over the State(Hyderabad) barring twin cities on January 2 synchronising with the 18th round of Janmabhoomi.In the twin cities, it
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Kids fight mid-day ills
In what appears to be a setback to the proposed Mid-day Meal Scheme, around 65 primary school students of Palakoderu and Bhimavaram mandals and around 70 students of a school at Kalavacherla in East
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Mid-day meal scheme in Tripura from April
Following a Supreme Court direction, the Tripura government has decided to start mid-day meal for schoolchildren studying between class I to class V from April 8 next. The decision was taken to
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Mid-day meals for primary schools
The Municipal Commissioner, Mr S P Aggarwal, announced that all students of primary schools will be given mid-day meals from 1 July. He was speaking at the meeting of the Municipal corporation's
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No mid-day meals in MCD schools for 3 months
The Chairman of the Standing Committee in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Mr. Shanti Desai, stated that no mid-day meal had been served for the past three months in any of the schools run by the
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Food for learning
One of the aspects of primary education that does not often get the attention it deserves is the mid-day meal scheme. As educationalists have pointed out time and again, such an arrangement has two
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Wheat for schoolchildren
There are reports that wheat being supplied to children in government primary schools in Punjab is finding its way to shops, defeating the very purpose of the well intentioned mid-day meal scheme.
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Drought-hit Orissa fails to claim free rice for children
At a time when most of western Orissa is reeling under a drought, the state government has not been lifting to the full the free rice supplied to it by Centre for its mid-day meal
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Effective targeting remains a problem
India's several nutritional programmes ranging from the Public Distribution System (PDS), the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the National Mid-Day Meals Programme (NNMP) to employment
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13 of 62 mid-day meal schemes centres shut
The much hyped mid-day meal (MDM) scheme for primary school children has got entangled in an administrative and procedural mess, as a result about 23 per cent of the 1.25 lakh children in the city of
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HC notice on mid-day meal scheme
The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Central and Delhi Governments and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) asking them to expalin the reason for stopping "mid-day meal" in primary
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Wonder drug to target mid-day meals
A wonder drug containing all the nutrients, proteins and vitamins needed for a child's development could soon form part of the mid day meals given in schools. Obtained from the fresh water algae,
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Mid-day meal scheme faces problem in Orissa
The mid-day meal programme introduced all over the country a few years ago by the Centre , is likely to come to a grinding halt in Orissa as the Food Corporation of India has stopped supply of
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CM announces mid-day meals for school kids in North Karnataka
Chief Minister S M Krishna today announced that mid-day meals would be introduced for school children in the seven districts of north Karnataka, namely, Bijapur, Bagalkot, Koppal, and Bellary and Rs
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Rajasthan to implement Supreme Court directive
Rajasthan will ensure effective implementation of eight social security schemes in accordance with a recent directive of the supreme court. The schemes will include the much talked about mid-day meal
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Mid-day meal scheme for BMP schools launched
The mid-day meal scheme for students of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike schools was launched by Mayor K Chandrashekar in the city today. As many as 16,000 students will be benefited by the scheme,
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Rs 1,175 crore sanctioned for mid-day meal scheme
In order to comply with the Supreme Court's directive to Sates and Union Territories to implement the mid-day meal scheme in Government primary schools from January 2002, the Centre has sanctioned an