Tag: Mid-day meal

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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September 15, 2017

80 students fall ill after taking mid-day meal in five Odisha schools

More than 80 students of five schools fell ill allegedly after eating mid-day meal in Kalahandi district, officials said on Friday. The students of schools at Luma, Kubri, Bandhpari, Ranjendrapur and Dangri villages under Lanjigarh block complained of vomiting, nausea and stomach pain after eating the meal yesterday, they said. The affected students were taken …

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September 15, 2017

Eighty students fall ill after taking mid-day meal in Odisha

More than 80 students of five schools fell ill allegedly after eating mid-day meal in Kalahandi district, officials said today. The students of schools at Luma, Kubri, Bandhpari, Ranjendrapur and Dangri villages under Lanjigarh block complained vomiting, nausea and stomach pain after eating the meal yesterday, they said. The affected students were taken to the …

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September 15, 2017

Aadhaar must for availing mid-day meal from June 30

Authorities have made Aadhaar card mandatory for students of government and government-aided schools in Uttar Pradesh for availing mid-day meal from June 30. Meerut district basic education officer Iqbal Singh said the state government had asked all district authorities to implement the decision. He said the school authorities were making efforts to get all students …

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June 2, 2017