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. …
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath on Thursday reiterated that only hot cooked, non-fortified food would be served under the Integrated Child Development Scheme and suggested setting up of a group of ministers (GoM) to decide on providing a cook, kitchen …
While school authorities have denied any food-poisoning incident at Our Lady of Mother of the Poor High School, Tilamol-Quepem, on September 30, a group of parents have continued to maintain that their children had fallen ill after eating the midday meals. In a letter to the Herald, School Manager Fr …
Mormugao Police on Thursday arrested Sree Saraswati Mahila Mandal Chief Urmila Salgaokar, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that the mid-day meals supplied to Yuvak Sangh High School Headland Sada, Vasco, on August 8 was not fit for consumption. It may be recalled that 18 students, all between …
QUEPEM: Eight primary students fell ill after eating mid-day meals at Our Lady of Poor High School, Tilamol-Quepem, on Wednesday, as substandard mid-day meals continued to torment students in the State for the third time in less than two months. According to reports, some students began complaining of stomachache, while …
Bibhuti Barik BHUBANESWAR: When it comes for a referral testing of food materials, chemical, medicine or any specific disease-causing agents, we tend to send samples to outside Orissa. However, after opening of the H1N1 testing facility at Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, it seems, if there is proper coordination …
Gandhinagar: Keeping in view the high percentage of malnourished children in schools, the state government has decided to introduce fortified flour in the mid day meals supplied in government schools. Cabinet spokesperson and health and family welfare minister Jay Narayan Vyas said the fortified flour would be introduced on the …
The mid-day meal scheme has generated heat in the coastal belt of Calangute with parents and others complaining of poor quality meals. According to sources, the mid-day meal scheme of the State government has come under fire for poor quality of meals, where school children in the locality have been …
UNHEALTHY TREND: Kids take mid-day meal in very unhygienic environment with a dog around in a Phulbani school SALEPUR: Irked by the supply of rotten eggs in their mid-day meal (MDM) under the government scheme, students of different primary schools in Salepur, Mahanga and Nischintakoili blocks threw away the eggs …
Students enrolled in madrasas across the city will now be covered under the mid-day meal scheme, an incentive planned for them by the central government. The move is part of the Madrasa Modernisation Scheme aimed at mainstreaming children who attend these seminaries and helping them procure jobs later. Around 70 …
Does it take 20 days to analyse the contaminated mid-day meal that was supplied to a school in the port town? Parents of those students who felt ill after consuming the meal have expressed anger over the Food and Drugs Administration
PREPARATION of food in the open, engaging children for cooking and use of empty paint containers to serve meals are some of the shocking instances the country
JAYA JUMRANI : Mid-Day meal, US-style: An 11-year-old asks Barack Obama to ensure mangoes figure in school lunches. It is not just a cute issue. School lunches raise serious political economy questions in the US, particularly when the economy is in trouble. With record number of job losses and high …
On Saturday, 18 students of Std V and VI at the Yuvak Sangh High School, Headland Sada, Vasco, had to be rushed to hospital after consuming a stale mid-day meal consisting of bhaji pao. It was served to 23 students of Std V and 19 students of Std VI. Thankfully, …
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. Linking the cooking cost to the price index will mean that the amount spent per meal …
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. Speaking in response to Calling Attention moved by Fatorda …
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 …
