83% mid-day meal samples fail lab tests
The food being served to Delhi’s children under the mid-day meal scheme is far from being healthy with 83 per cent of the samples lifted for testing failing in the current fiscal. In a response to Right
The food being served to Delhi’s children under the mid-day meal scheme is far from being healthy with 83 per cent of the samples lifted for testing failing in the current fiscal. In a response to Right
Beginning July, the food being served under the midday meal programme across primary and upper primary schools in Uttar Pradesh will have more variety. The Uttar Pradesh Midday Meal Authority (UPMDMA) is preparing a recipe book, with 150 recipes to choose from. These recipes will be created keeping in mind the convergence cost and the nutrition requirement of each child.
Despite drawing flak for unprofessional deliverance of mid-day meals in government schools at several places in the state, Punjab has bagged the second position among states and union territories in the
Random review of the midday meals (MDM) scheme in Buldhana district by a committee set up by the union human resources development (HRD) ministry found that more than half the students were underweight.
For several months now, Punjab government schools have not received money for the mid-day meal scheme.
Government school children in the State, in class one to nine, will soon have an addition to their mid-day meal plate on Saturdays, a boiled egg or a banana. If egg is not consumed by a child on account
The tragic episode in a school in Bihar, where 23 children died because of contaminated food, is unacceptable. But it is also a fact that the midday meal scheme, under which cooked food is compulsorily
Jammu, August 22: Expressing concern over alleged reports of mismanagement in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had written to Education
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday said the death of 23 children at Chapra in Bihar after eating school meal contaminated with monocrotophos was an important reminder
At least 110 children were taken ill after eating mid-day meal in Bihar's Arwal and Jamui districts Wednesday in the second tragedy related to free school food in the state this month, officials said.
At 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16, the school bell tolled to signal lunch. The 58 schoolchildren present on the day-of the 79 enrolled in the Gandaman Primary School in Chhapra, some 120 km northwest of
): Another New Delhi-datelined report by the Times of India published on Tuesday revealed how rotten the mid-day meal, health-care and other centrally-funded schemes are in Bihar. Only on Saturday the
A Special Investigating Team (SIT) formed by the Bihar government Tuesday began its probe into the deaths of 23 children after they ate a mid-day meal in a school. The eight-member team is headed by
BANGALORE: "We've granted special permission to schools and cooks to reject inferior ingredients and vegetables,'' primary and secondary education minister KimmaneRathnakar said. The government will launch
Bhubaneswar : Jolted by the death of 23 children in Bihar after eating midday meal, the Naveen Patnaik government has decided that before food is served to children, a member of the school managing committee
Several schools in Sambalpur district have not received rice for the last one year under the mid-day meal scheme. A large number of schools in the state have not yet resumed supply of the meal after summer
The Centre’s move of withdrawing subsidies on gas cylinders and restricting the number of cylinders to six a year will affect the school mid-day meal scheme, which caters to more than 1.8 crore students.
Food samples collected by Food and Drugs Administration inspectors from Mallikharjun High School in Canacona and the premises of Omkar Self Help Group which prepared the meals were found to contain E coli
In August 2012, the Seidu family had to cope with the bad harvest. Like many farming families in northern Ghana, they had to adopt the ‘one-zero-one’ strategy for the children and the ‘zero-zero-one’ strategy
‘Stretch between Haridwar and Unnao is worst polluted’ The National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government and tanneries located on the banks of river Ganga at Kanpur to clear