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  Bahraich: Six-year-old boy falls in pot of hot curry while standing in queue for midday meal

  India | October 31, 2017 17:37 IST

  Six-year-old Shivam fell into a pot of hot vegetable curry while standing in a queue for a midday meal.

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  Faridabad: A small snake found in mid-day meal at a government school in Haryana

  News | May 12, 2017 13:49 IST

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  Akshay Patra: An NGO the provides free and healthy food to poor children

  News | April 08, 2017 13:46 IST

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  Good News: This NGO provides quality food to 15 lakh school children for free

  Good News | April 05, 2017 23:44 IST

  Akshaya Patra Foundation supplies food over 15 lakh school children across the country now.

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  Nine students hospitalised after dead rat found in Delhi school's mid-day meal

  India | February 17, 2017 18:49 IST

  In a shocking incident reported from a Delhi government school, at least nine students were admitted to a government hospital after consuming midday meal which allegedly had a dead rat in it. The meal was

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  Dead rat found in midday meal in Delhi school, 9 kids hospitalised

  India | February 17, 2017 9:58 IST

  At least nine kids were admitted to a hospital here after they consumed midday meal at a government school which had a dead rat in it.

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  2013 Bihar midday meal tragedy: How Principal’s neglect left 23 children dead

  India | January 23, 2017 14:24 IST

  After almost four years of the tragic incident, the officer-in-charge of the probe recollected the events of July 16, 2013, giving an idea how the school principal’s ‘negligence’ took the lives of 23 children.

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  Chapra mid-day meal tragedy: Court sentences school principal to 17 years in prison

  India | August 29, 2016 23:25 IST

  A local court in Chhapra on Monday sentenced former principal of a school in Saran district to 17 years in prison in connection with the deaths of 23 schoolchildren.

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  Madrasas refuse mid-day meals from ‘Hindu’ organisations in Ujjain

  India | August 06, 2016 13:16 IST

  More than 30 madrasas in Ujjain have refused to accept mid-day meals for students provided by the Iskcon Temple trust, a Hindu organisation.

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  Distraught Dalit widow sacked from job after losing her husband, DM breaks taboo to get her job back

  India | July 27, 2016 16:24 IST

  Out of her job for three years now, 36-year-old Urmila Kuwar, found help from the district’s senior bureaucrat in the state

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  Two children die after drinking milk at midday meal

  India | May 06, 2016 7:40 IST

  Mathura: Two children died and more than two dozen others fell seriously ill after they consumed milk in a government school as part of the midday meal programme on Thursday, police said. The two killed

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  Barred by villagers to cook mid-day meals, widow resumes job

  India | December 19, 2015 11:02 IST

  Bihar: A widow, who was barred by villagers from cooking midday meals for students at a government school in Bihar's Gopalganj district, was reinstated to her job with help from the district authorities on Friday.

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  Institutionalised exaggeration of figures in mid-day meal scheme: CAG

  Politics | December 18, 2015 19:54 IST

  New Delhi: A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has found serious irregularities related to the Mid-Day Meal scheme, including what it termed as an “institutionalised exaggeration” of figures pertaining to the

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  35 students fall ill after taking mid-day meal in West Bengal's Bardhaman

  India | September 14, 2015 20:07 IST

  Bardhaman: 35 students were hospitalised as they fell ill allegedly after consuming mid-day meal at a girls secondary school at Madhabdihi of this district, health officials said today.The students vomitted and complained of stomach pain

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  Mid Day Meal to be a 'model scheme' under SAGY

  India | August 30, 2015 10:47 IST

  New Delhi: With the aim of making the Mid Day Meal programme a ‘model scheme' in villages covered under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), the Centre has asked states to plug loopholes in its execution

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  CAG slams Arunachal Government for failure in implementing Mid-Day Meal scheme

  India | July 22, 2015 19:00 IST

  Itanagar: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has criticised the Arunachal Pradesh education department for its failure in successful implementation of the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme in the state.The Centre launched the MDM

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  72 Bihar school children fall ill after mid-day meal

  India | June 23, 2015 19:57 IST

  Patna : At least 72 children fell ill on Tuesday after having their mid-day meal at two government schools in Bihar, officials said.Sixty children fell ill after consuming the meal at Mathia Middle School in

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  Why Shivraj Singh Chauhan should give schoolchildren eggs

  Politics | June 04, 2015 13:32 IST

  Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, a vegetarian, may have cultural and religious reasons for refusing to allow state schools to serve eggs in their midday meal, but his reasoning makes no nutritional sense

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  #Rs750SeHungerKiBajao: a noble initiave

  Life | May 28, 2015 18:39 IST

  Ranveer Singh's initiative for Akshaya Patra Foundation's latest noble cause to provide mid-day meals to underprivileged kids across various schools in India has already caught the attention of many. It has been 2 days since

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  Mid-day meal becoming 'poisonous meal': BJP MP

  Politics | February 25, 2015 14:26 IST

  New Delhi: A ruling BJP MP today embarrassed the government by saying in Lok Sabha that the mid-day meal scheme, sponsored by the Centre, has become "poisonous meal", leading to strong objection from HRD Minister