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. …
A sum of Rs. 111 crore 68 lakh 99 thousand has been released as the fourth (last) instalment for arrangements for cooking food under Mid-day Meal Scheme in primary and middle schools of the state. These funds have been allocated for the year 2011-12 for Mid-Day Meal Scheme’s implementation in …
Allocation for a child in anganwadi in State is Rs. 4 a day With food prices going northward, a cup of coffee in Bangalore, on an average, costs Rs. 10 today. In such a situation, how well can a child in an anganwadi in Karnataka be fed on an allocation …
Chandigarh: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has sanctioned Rs 54 crore grant to Chandigarh Unit of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for academic session 2012-13. Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan had put across a budget proposal of Rs 72 crore. This year, two new schools will be set up under SSA …
Government schools in Punjab have reportedly not received any money for midday meals for the last several months prompting some of them to stop serving food to children under the scheme. In a few schools, teachers have been spending from their own pockets or buying rations on credit to feed …
DHENKANAL: The bird flu panic has made its way to the mid-day meal scheme too. Hundreds of students of various primary schools in Dhenkanal district have refused to take eggs in their noon meal. As many as 1,700 schools with 1.10 lakh children come under the Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan in …
Patiala: Irked over the delay in release of payments for the mid-day meal schemes, many government schools in the district have closed the scheme, while others are on the verge of closing the scheme due to shortage of funds. Sources in the Education Department said that many schools in Samana …
In the land of sops, the latest is mango milkshake. The Tamil Nadu government is considering a plan to provide mango milkshake to mid-day meal centres, with the state milk cooperative, Aavin, directed to examine the proposal. However, unlike the hugely popular mid-day meal scheme implemented at thousands of government …
A simple call on the cell phone of the school teacher across the 1.53 lakh primary schools in Uttar Pradesh is helping monitor the state’s mid-day meal programme. This innovative monitoring practice developed by the state’s Mid-Day Meal Authority (MDMA) has won the nBillionth Award South Asia 2011. It will …
LUCKNOW: Five days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accused Mayawati government in UP of mega-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to UP chief minister Mayawati citing a huge scam in the MNREGA scheme in the state. According …
The mid-day meal scheme department, responsible for providing meals to children in government schools under the Right of all Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, is considering extending the programme to students in private schools who have been admitted under the mandatory 25 per cent quota for those …
Sample unfit for human consumption, says lab report The Haryana State Federation of Consumers’ Cooperative Wholesale Stores (CONFED) is under the scanner for supply of wheat, for mid-day meal in a Panchkula school, which was found ‘unfit for human consumption’. The matter came to light on August 28, when teachers …
The residents of Sardar Sarovar Dam Project affected villages in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of all major programmes initiated by the State Government. Surprisingly, schemes like the PDS, ICDS, MDM, and NREGS are completely dysfunctional in the villages. There is widespread and unchecked corruption in the …
Read more:gram panchayats|financial irregularities LUCKNOW: Financial irregularities have been found in the implementation of the mid-day meal in 607 of Sultanpur district's 1262 gram panchayats. The anomalies came to light after rations, worth nearly Rs 1.47 crore, was found "misused'' by gram pradhans during their five-year tenures between 2005 and …
Accepts To Cover 75% Rural, 50% Urban Population New Delhi: The government is set to accept the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council’s recommendation tocover 75% rural and50%urban population under a food security law,butwantstokeep the percentages outside the language of the Act itself. UPA-2 is inclined to set the percentage of …
Flouting court orders, the Yeddyurappa government is serving packaged food to kids, finds Imran Khan Stomachs get filled but in the long run, malnutrition takes its toll on the kids FOR THE present dispensation in Karnataka, the beleaguered BS Yeddyurappa government, which survives crisis after crisis by the skin of …
The Bombay high court has come to the rescue of the malnourished children in Melghat area of Amravati district. The court has directed the state government to provide cooked mid-day meals to children between the ages of six months and three years on a daily basis from June 1, instead …
Day-to-day data to be posted online to ensure transparency, will provide clearer picture of how scheme is faring in Capital To keep a daily record of the mid-day meals served at its schools, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to maintain a register. It will record the number …
Government to promote its use to tackle anaemia The Union government will promote the use of iron fortified iodised salt (double fortified salt) to battle anaemia, one of the major causes of malnutrition, particularly among women and children. To begin with, the Ministries dealing with food and nutrition programmes such …
Beginning July, the food being served under the midday meal programme across primary and upper primary schools in Uttar Pradesh will have more variety. The Uttar Pradesh Midday Meal Authority (UPMDMA) is preparing a recipe book, with 150 recipes to choose from. These recipes will be created keeping in mind …
