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The implementation of the nutrition support to Primary Education Scheme, popularly known as mid-day meal (MDM), is far from satisfactory in Uttar Pradesh. Right from the enrolment stage, the poor quality of food, improper transportation, dubious role of NGOs and insincere monitoring have only added to the poor implementation of …
New Delhi: 7 lakh students up to Class VIII to be part of scheme now, says government Once bitten twice shy, the Delhi Government is waiting for a final report before announcing the expansion of the midday meal scheme for schoolchildren up to Class VIII. While the government had said …
The government is open to starting the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme in private Christian schools, not yet covered under the scheme. The HRD Ministry today set up a high-level committee to look at the need and feasibility of providing the scheme to private Christian schools, primarily those in the tribal …
Chandigarh: Considering the earlier complaints received on worms infesting mid-day meals, the UT Administration has now decided to introduce various measures to provide better quality food to students. According to information, a review committee submitted its findings to the UT Home Secretary after inspecting various schools. Apart from the inspection …
Jamshedpur, Jan. 8: The state government is working extra hard to implement the mid-day meal scheme in all the schools of East Singhbhum district but minority-run institutions have requested to spare them from the scheme. If such is the situation, the mid-day meal scheme would not be implemented in government …
To ensure supply of good quality foodgrains for mid-day meal scheme under the Public Distribution System (PDS), the government has issued fair average quality foodgrains conforming to the Food Adulteration Act (PFA) standards, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. During surprise visits to the schools of the four states …
HYDERABAD: The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has pulled up the State for failing to provide adequate school infrastructure for implementing the mid-day meal scheme and inflating the enrolment figures while seeking Central allotment of rice. According to the CAG report (civil) for the 2007-08 fiscal, which was tabled in the …
Hyderabad Dec. 5: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said that the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme in the state was lacking in coordination and overall perspective. The latest CAG report tabled in the Assembly said that this has led to delays in assessing the requirements of …
Jammu: The mid-day meals scheme aimed at improving nutritional status of children of primary schools, attract more enrolments besides checking early dropout cases, is not catching up with the students, thanks to substandard food being served to them. However, school education director Zahida Khan denied the charge. Some school authorities …
Birmaharajpur, Students of Badkhamar Primary School in Jatesingha gram panchayat have been boycotting their school protesting poor quality of mid-day meal being served to them. There are about 107 students in the school and responsibility of the mid-day meal has been handed over to an SHG. Earlier, parents and guardians …
A student who fell ill at the school undergoes treatment at a Ranchi hospital. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, Nov. 13: At least five boys have died after consuming milk and snacks in a government-run residential school in Jharkhand, the tragedy unfolding on the eve of children
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi October 27, 2008, 0:30 IST The central government last week ruled in favour of hot cooked meals as the final choice of food to be served to pre-school children under the Rs 42,000-crore Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). The Cabinet decision overruled a note of …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi October 16, 2008, 0:27 IST The government is all set to put an end to the debate on whether hot cooked meals or ready-to-eat food like biscuits should be served in the anganwadis, the pre-school feeding centres run under the central government scheme of Integrated …
Kamavarapukota, Oct. 13: The minister for minor irrigation, Mr Maganti Venkateswara Rao, ina-ugurated the mid-day meal scheme meant for high sch-ools students in West Goda-vari district on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that about 4.30 lakh high school students were to be given meals at a cost …
Hyderabad, Oct. 13: The state launched the extension of its mid-day meals scheme (covering up to Class X) in all the high schools on Monday. The minister for school education, Mr Damodara Rajanarasimha, formally launched the scheme at a school in Medak. Though the school education officials claimed that they …
