Tag: Mid-day meal

Suvendu writes to Union education minister on mid-day meal corruption

 He alleged that the funds to feed school students for their nutrition and health, has been unethically diverted by the state government to serve their own vested interests.

January 6, 2023

NHRC issues notice to UP govt over tantrik treating girls in a school

The Commission has taken a suo motu cognizance of the media reports about the incident that the of a state-run school in Mahoba.

December 23, 2022

Schoolkids in Bengal fall sick after eating detergent-mixed midday meal

At least 12 schoolchildren fell sick at a state-run primary school in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district after consuming midday meal.

September 3, 2022

Teachers, students lend a helping hand in organic farming at school

The efforts of the staff, the students also voluntarily participated in bringing up a vegetable garden in the entire vacant compound.

May 5, 2022

Mid-day deprivation must be addressed

The battle against the pandemic is a long one and there are remote chances of full reopening of schools before mass vaccination including of children

September 3, 2021

Odisha Govt. moves to infuse green ambience in schools

The managements of private-run Schools should also be encouraged to take up such plantation drives and DEOs are advised to take up the matter with them, they said.

June 30, 2021

CS directs to provide good quality mid day meal to students in HP

He said this while presiding over the 19th State Level Steering-cum- Monitoring Committee Meeting (SL-SMC) of Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) held here today.

January 9, 2020

President Ram Nath Kovind visits Akshaya Patra kitchen in Vrindavan, serves Mid-Day meal to children

President was accompanied by the First Lady Savita Kovind, Governor of Gujarat Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister of Yogi Adityanath.

November 30, 2019

1 litre milk ‘diluted’ with water for 81 kids in UP school

Gram Panchayat ward member Dev Patia alleged that a bucket of water was added to one litre of milk and distributed among 81 children in the primary school in Sonebhadra district's Salaibanwa area on Wednesday.

November 29, 2019

UP salt-roti row: We’ll probe, says minister on FIR against journalist

The Uttar Pradesh government’s spokesman said that it is providing mid-day meals in over 1.5 lakh primary and middle schools across the state. Over 1 crore children are supposed to benefit from the scheme.

September 3, 2019

Case against journalist who shot video of students having roti with salt in Uttar Pradesh

The journalist and the village head's representative have been accused of cheating and criminal conspiracy.

September 2, 2019

Fish introduced in Mid-Day Meal menu

Non-vegetarian items, comprising either fish or egg curry, should be provided twice in a week among which fish should be served at least one day a week. “Chatni” should be on the menu twice in a week.

August 24, 2019

Jammu and Kashmir Panchayats get powers 26 years after 73rd Amendment

To make the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) the true harbingers of socio-economic development, the amendments will ensure well defined taxation powers to the Panchayats for generation of adequate resources by themselves.

October 5, 2018

Jammu and Kashmir: Panchayats given more powers in state before elections

This is for the first time in the state that powers as per the 73rd Amendment, which is not applicable in J&K, have been given to the Panchayats.

October 4, 2018

Food poisoning: 120 school children admitted to hospital in Kerala

Nearly 120 children were taken ill after eating a meal at a school and admitted to a hospital here. The children were from a lower primary school at Thonnakel in the district. Though the condition of the none of the affected children was serious, they would be discharged only after monitoring their health condition, a...

January 19, 2018

Mid-day meal promotes education, says President Kovind

President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said the mid-day meal programme was playing a vital role in promoting education in the country as the financially weaker sections send their children to school for the “nutritious” and “wholesome” food. “Mid-day meal promotes education because less well-off make an effort to send their children to school,” said...

December 30, 2017

230 students fall sick after eating food at school

Altogether 230 students, including 150 girls, were taken ill allegedly after eating food in different schools in Odisha’s Malkangiri and Kalahandi districts, officials said on Friday. “Around 150 girls of a government-run residential school fell ill with symptoms of food-poisoning at Badapada in remote Chitrakonda area of Malkangiri allegedly after eating breakfast today,” said Ramkrishna...

September 15, 2017