Days after 230 students fell sick allegedly after consuming mid-day meals바카라 웹사이트(MDM)바카라 웹사이트in different government-run schools in Odisha, inspection in a Meerut city school revealed 160 kg of MDM ration reserved for the students were being fed to cows in a dairy.바카라 웹사이트
Meerut Police Seize 160 Kg Of Mid-Day Meal Ration Being Fed To Cows In Dairy As Students Go Hungry
An inspection revealed the students in the city school were not provided any meals for the past three years.
The district programme officer (DPO),바카라 웹사이트on Friday, seized 160 kg of MDM ration being fed to the cows, two days after an inspection revealed the students in the city school were not provided any meals for the past three years, 바카라 웹사이트The Times Of India.바카라 웹사이트
The police have바카라 웹사이트detained owner of the dairy, Praveen Kumar, along with Kunwar Sain, husband of Uma Devi, an anganwadi worker at the school where the ration was supposed to be delivered, the report added.바카라 웹사이트
The Mid-day meal (MDM) scheme바카라 웹사이트was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on바카라 웹사이트August 15th1995 to enhance바카라 웹사이트'enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children.'
According to the official website, food norms have been revised to ensure a balanced diet, cooking cost has been increased, more than 25.5 lakh cooks and helpers바카라 웹사이트are engaged by the State/UTs during 2016-17바카라 웹사이트 for preparation and serving of Mid Day Meal to Children in Elementary Classes and ensures a free supply of nutritious바카라 웹사이트food per child per day in govt-run schools.바카라 웹사이트
However, students falling ill after consuming mid-day meal keeps making headlines on a fairly routine basis
In May this year,바카라 웹사이트children at a government school in Faridabad, Haryana, 바카라 웹사이트found a small snake their food.
Two teachers and six students complained of nausea after consuming the food and were rushed to the hospital immediately.
In Delhi early this year,바카라 웹사이트the바카라 웹사이트North Delhi Municipal Corporation바카라 웹사이트steeped up efforts to monitor and improve the quality of midday meal at its schools, after reports of a dead cat being found in the meals served to students surfaced.바카라 웹사이트
With the BJP govt making Aadhaar Cards mandatory for mid-day meals, number of beneficiaries of the already-in-trouble social welfare scheme reduced.바카라 웹사이트
In Meerut for instance, of a total of 1.73 lakh students in 1,561 schools, only about 29,000 students have Aadhaar cards, which comes to less than 17 %, The Hindu.
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