New Delhi: The human resource development ministry has proposed major changes, like linking the cooking cost to the price index of food items, in the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme so that it runs smoothly.

The Education Department would shortly appoint a nutritional officer to check the quality of the food served and evaluate the nutritive value of Midday Meals on day-to-day basis, declared Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate on the floor of the House on Wednesday.

Controversies surrounding the midday meal scheme have prompted the state to consider handing over the job of preparing and distributing food among schoolchildren to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) and NGOs.

Iskcon is already in charge of midday meal in Bangalore, Karnataka, on behalf of the state government there.

Four sacks of rice, one of pulses and potato ration to last at least a month

CHENNAI: It is in Tamil Nadu that nutritious meal programme (NMP) and anganwadi employees receive the maximum pay, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi told the Assembly on Monday.

The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive-------------
Every Morsel Counts
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Jean Dreze, Economist

1. Food security guarantee will have to come from the Centre
2. Does not want to freeze number of BPL families at any inflexible level
3. Wants clear criteria to determine BPL and APL categories, but not with an aim to exclude anyone

AHMEDABAD: The number of midday meal beneficiaries may have almost doubled in the last 24 years, but the scheme has always remained in the news either because of inferior quality of food being supplied or worms found in pulses and cereals. Midday meal programme was launched in 1984 and Gujarat was the second state to introduce it two years after Tamil Nadu did.

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Amid growing complaints of irregularities and misuse of mid-day meal schemes, a review meeting was held at the conference room of the DC

Expressing his distress at the

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