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: 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 …
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. Replying to a debate on a special call attention notice regarding the NMP employees
The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive------------- Every Morsel Counts The alternative version 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 …
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 …
Sandur (Bellary Dt), DHNS: In all, 147 students took ill after consuming food served under the mid-day meal scheme at the Yeshvantnagar Government Primary and High School at Sandur in the district. A lizard in the cooked food is said to be the reason for food poisoning. While the food …
R. Sujatha and Deepa H Ramakrishnan In Karnataka and Puducherry, centralised kitchens have been introduced S. THANTHONI. MAKESHIFT KITCHEN?: Food being prepared in a Chennai Corporation run school in Kolathur.
For the first time, students from Std V to VIII will join their counterparts from Std I to IV, to relish pao bhaji, sheera and pulao as the Mid-Day Meal scheme is set to be implemented across the State, most probably from July 1. More than 1.63 lakh students from …
As many as 50 students fell ill after consuming midday meal in Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Residential High School of Ghataparthy in Thalak hobli of the taluk, on Thursday. The condition of three students is stated to be critical. A lizard was found in the midday meal and students, who had …
PRADUMAN CHOUBEY Dhanbad, June 9: As many as 80 students of a primary school in Govindpur block, about 20km from the district headquarters, fell sick after having the midday meal served there today. While 12 students are still recovering, the condition of the rest is stable. Agitated parents alleged that …
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Government has ordered an inquiry into the mid-day meal given to students in a school here after teachers found a dead frog in the served food.
Mohali: The future of young impressionable minds in government schools in Mohali district seems to be bleak in the view of the dire straits of elementary education. Boasting of several institutes of national repute, this adjoining district of Chandigarh still has several schools which lack drinking water, toilets, teachers and …
