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 demand to reintroduce a universal Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country appears every now and then. Its proponents argue that universal access is necessary for ensuring food security, for better control on prices and for eliminating (at least partially) the evils of exclusion errors in the targeted PDS. …
We recently had a visit from a couple of government schoolteachers. They were in a foul mood. This was their third visit to our house, and on earlier two occasions the house was locked.
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday sanctioned the release of Rs 271 crore to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) out of the approved budget outlay of Rs 912 crore for roads, urban development and education, including midday meals, for the year 2010-11. Delhi finance minister Dr AK Walia called …
Putting absolute liability on the Delhi government to ensure the mid-day meal provided in its schools is cooked properly, the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed it to pay over Rs 4 lakh as compensation to 126 students who had fallen ill after consuming the food in a government school.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted compensation to all the children who had taken ill or feared illness after having a mid-day meal at a Delhi Government middle school for girls at Hauz Quazi near Ajmeri Gate here this past month. A Division Bench of the Court …
Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: Come July and 12 crore children benefiting from the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme may go without food as states have nearly run out of foodgrain and fresh supply is caught up in wrangling over the mode of payment. Foodgrain for every quarter is usually …
Hazaribagh, May 19: As many as 276 students of a government school fell sick today after eating a midday meal of khichdi in which a lizard was found, a week after an identical episode in Deoghar where 19 children fell sick after a midday meal. Children of the school in …
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 …
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 …
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. The study tried to …
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. The Zilla Parishad has taken a strong note of the delay by the PCB in re-starting the mid-day meals after it …
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 …
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. Though the Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan (SSA) has created some awareness among the children in the …
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 …
