Ranchi, May 12: Jharkhand High Court today pulled up the state government after a report submitted by the district and sessions judge of Deoghar confirmed that 19 students of Kishnidehi Government Primary School fell ill on Monday because of food poisoning. The students were allegedly served midday meal of khichdi that had a boiled lizard in it.
Dumka, May 10: In a grim reminder to the 2008 Bero deaths, 19 students of a state-run primary school in Deoghar fell ill today after eating a midday meal of khichdi that allegedly had a boiled lizard in it.
While 16 were released after treatment, three have been admitted to Deoghar Sadar Hospital in critical condition.
New Delhi: At least 29 students fell ill allegedly after eating the mid-day meal at the Government Girls Middle School in Hauz Qazi near Ajmeri Gate on Thursday. According to the students, they ate
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 status of children and to assess the extent to which CMDM has succeeded in achieving the objectives.
Pune The state government has sought explanation from the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) for the delay of four months in providing mid-day meal to children of its nine schools.
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.
Nearly 43 lakh children drop out of govt schools in last 5 years
Even as the Right to Education Act comes into force in the country yesterday, the Mid-day meal scheme, an ambitious scheme of the previous Congress-led regime under PV Narsimha Rao, has failed to attract children to government schools in the state.
BHUBANESWAR: Though Orissa has witnessed a drastic change in the physical features of elementary education, many things are yet to be achieved in terms of access and retention of the students in the State-run schools.
Concerned over the various complaints pouring in with regard to the quality of food given to students under the Mid-Day Meal scheme in schools, the Haryana government has entrusted the responsibility of preparation and distribution of food to self-help groups (SHGs) constituted by the rural development and panchayats and women and child development departments.
