New Delhi: Nearly 63% of children in the 0 to six years group in Delhi suffer from anaemia. Pre-school education is available to only 2.7 lakh children in the three to six years group, out of the eligible 12 lakh. These figures are preliminary findings of an alternate report on the status of young children in India which was released on Monday.

BHUBANESWAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has recommended that the implementation of the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme should be fully offloaded from the teachers to give them adequate time for teaching activities.

Chandigarh: With an aim to expand the benefits of the mid-day meal scheme, the Education department has decided to include madrasas, as well as a school for the physically and mentally challenged in the scheme.

The plan has already been tabled before the Administration.

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In a face saving exercise after it was rapped for discontinuation of vaccine production in public sector units, the Health Ministry announced selective and phased-manner re-starting of vaccine production at the three public sector undertakings, which had been directed to stop production one year ago.

Mumbai: The national allocation for the midday meal scheme in the interim budget announced on Monday remains the same as last year. The programme, which is one of the world's biggest school-feeding schemes, has been given Rs8,000 crore for 2009-10.