Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The government allocated Rs 3,000 million to provide the school midday meal for 2013, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardana said. “A balanced meal is provided by the government aimed at improving the health nutrition state of schoolchildren. The midday meal will be provided to 1,014,901 schoolchildren from grade one to five …
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. The MLA from the teachers’ constituency has placed the demand for subsidy on gas cyliders to …
Unable to get an exemption for the cooking gas cylinders used for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the wake of a steep hike in the prices of domestic gas, Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested that the Petroleum Ministry consider providing subsidised LPG cylinders for the current fiscal …
Human resource minister Kapil Sibal has urged the oil ministry to allow the use of subsidised cooking gas for mid-day meals for the current fiscal year to help prevent additional expenditure of . 653 crore on the popular scheme. He has urged oil minister Jaipal Reddy to take a quick …
Giving itself discretionary powers on release funds to States under various Central schemes, the Planning Commission has decided to restructure 16 Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) into Additional Central Assistance (ACA) Schemes. The new funding pattern will be effective from 2013-14. While restructuring the CSSs will give more flexibility to the …
KOLKATA, 5 OCT: The state government will spend an additional Rs 7 crore as fuel cost for preparing a revised menu at anganwadi centres. The decision to increase the fuel cost does not follow the cap on LPG cylinders but due to complaints that the existing fuel cost was not …
Jaipur: The UPA’s mid-day meal programme in Rajasthan is in tatters. The recently released Monitoring Institutions (MIs) report has revealed glaring anomalies in implementation of the scheme with many children in the state not getting any benefits and some actually going hungry. According to a report, the scheme is not …
Foodgrain provided by the Centre for three Adarsh Schools ‘siphoned’ to a college Moga: At least 1,000 students of primary and upper primary classes in three Adarsh Schools in the district have not been served mid-day meals for the past many months. Foodgrain provided by the Centre for the schools …
Apart from increasing nutrition of schoolchildren, the move will help to boost production The Agriculture Ministry has asked the States to include millets in the mid-day meal scheme to increase the demand for the cereal and, thereby, enhance farm incomes.Millet crops or coarse cereals are known for their high nutritional …
In this chapter Mid-Day Meals Scheme (MDMS) has been discussed thoroughly with various empirical evidences. After the famous Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the State in India, realizing the various issues related to children, yet another famous MDMS has been initiated for the age group of children under fourteen as …
PANJIM: The head of government’s opinion that the food is sub-standard and not fit to even feed animals and the leader of opposition’s statement that students refuse to eat the meals and nearly 60 to 70 per cent of the food is thrown out, is serious rebuke to highlight the …
Bangalore: There’s piping hot bisi bele bath on their plates, garnished with khara boondi, and the children are relishing their meal — a scene to warm hearts. But in this case, the heart would skip a beat. The lunch is laid out on the road in front of the school, …
Forty-seven students of a government primary school at Brahmanvasi village in Gujarat were allegedly beaten up by their teacher for raising their voice against the delay in getting mid-day meals, the police said on Sunday. The incident came to light on Saturday after Jayantibhai Somabhai, the guardian of one student, …
Report on three voluntary organisations submitted, but none finalised The East Corporation will feed 16,000 more mouths through its school meal programme this academic year and is in the process of finalising voluntary organisations to supply cooked food. All the schools are scheduled to reopen after the summer break from …
With both the state government not releasing funds in time, the staff managing the mid-day meal scheme in various schools of Punjab has been finding it hard to keep the initiative going, find The Tribune team. Chandigarh: Fifty schools in Patiala have stopped serving food to students as teachers refused …
KOLKATA, 19 JUNE: Children at the anganwadi centres will no longer have to satisfy themselves with khichdi and half an egg in their meals daily. The state child development department has prepared a menu chart for the meal. According to the newly prepared menu chart, egg curry will be served …
KLEW: A serious irregularity has been unearthed over the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme in the Unitarian Lower Primary School in Upper Klew village in Ri-Bhoi district. Students of the school are not getting their mid-day meal even though official records claim that mid-day meals are being provided to …
Mumbai: The BMC has floated a Rs 121 crore proposal to buy flavoured milk for civic schools. To prevent any delays, the BMC plans to buy the milk directly from dairies rather than going through dealers in the market. The proposal is likely to be placed before the standing committee, …
With some States defaulting on payment of their share of funds for providing meals to children in government schools, adversely affecting the implementation of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the Centre has now asked all States to consider adopting Andhra Pradesh's model ‘Green Channel Scheme.' The A.P. model makes funds available …
A probe by the Karnataka Lokayukta into the supply of food to the Integrated Child Development Services has found that Department of Women and Child Development officials in connivance with the contractor, Christy Friedgram Industry, were siphoning off funds meant for the mid-day meal scheme. The revelation has come at …
