Though Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDMS) is being executed successfully in the Almora district, but more than 1,000 primary schools do not have kitchen and potable water facilities in the district.

For several months now, Punjab government schools have not received money for the mid-day meal scheme.

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court today directed the State Government to file its response to a PIL on the large-scale irregularities in the supply of dal to schools under the mid-day meal (MDM) programme.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopalagowda and Justice BN Mohapatra has also directed the secretary, Women and Child Development Department, to file an affidavit by next week indicating wha

The state primary education department has assured that the mid-day meals for students in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-run schools would start within the next few days.

DNA had earlier highlighted the suspension of the meals for a majority of over two lakh students in municipal schools in the city for the last three months.

This was due to the failure of the agency in supplying rice to t

The mid-day meal scheme for poor children has come to a halt in nearly 70% of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) schools for the past three months.

A majority of nearly two lakh poor students in the city

Jamshedpur, Feb. 28: The midday meal at five government-run primary schools in Mango and Dimna has been stopped from today due to the ongoing water crisis, leaving around 1,000 underprivileged children bereft of their free lunch.

With no water to cook, the scheme was stopped for the first time since schools adopted it in 2002.

BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Human Rights Commission (OSHRC) has asked the State Government to immediately stop supply of substandard pulses under the mid-day meal and supplementary nutrition programme.

MUMBAI: Mid-day meals for over 1.22 crore school children will soon be tastier and healthier than before. If the state government has its way, khichdi will be replaced with rice, dal and chapattis in the scheme which used to be totally funded by the Union government.

"The change in food menu is being contemplated by the school education department. The modalities are being worked out.

Burdwan, Feb.

BHUBANESWAR: Women and Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal today admitted that though there was a 20-point guideline for the procurement of dal these were never enforced in a proper manner at the district level. The dal was meant to be given to schoolchildren and pregnant women under the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme and supplementary nutrition programme (SNP).