Mid Day Meal
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Bahraich: Six-year-old boy falls in pot of hot curry while standing in queue for midday meal
India | Oct 31, 2017, 05:37 PM ISTSix-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
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Akshay Patra: An NGO the provides free and healthy food to poor children
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Good News: This NGO provides quality food to 15 lakh school children for free
Good News | Apr 05, 2017, 11:44 PM ISTAkshaya 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 | Feb 17, 2017, 06:49 PM ISTIn 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 | Feb 17, 2017, 09:58 AM ISTAt 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 | Jan 23, 2017, 02:24 PM ISTAfter 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 | Aug 29, 2016, 11:25 PM ISTA 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 | Aug 06, 2016, 01:16 PM ISTMore 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 | Jul 27, 2016, 04:24 PM ISTOut 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, 07:40 AM ISTMathura: 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 | Dec 19, 2015, 11:02 AM ISTBihar: 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
National | Dec 18, 2015, 07:54 PM ISTNew 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 | Sep 14, 2015, 08:07 PM ISTBardhaman: 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 | Aug 30, 2015, 10:47 AM ISTNew 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 | Jul 22, 2015, 07:00 PM ISTItanagar: 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 | Jun 23, 2015, 07:57 PM ISTPatna : 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
National | Jun 04, 2015, 01:32 PM ISTMadhya 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, 06:39 PM ISTRanveer 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
National | Feb 25, 2015, 02:26 PM ISTNew 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