Four people and an NGO have been booked for negligence after a dead rat was found in the midday meal served in a school here, police said on Wednesday.
As many as 50 students of two government schools in Odisha's Jajpur were taken ill after consuming mid-day meal on Saturday, officials said. The first incident occurred at Sibantpur Upper Primary School under Haridaspur panchayat of Dharmasala block, they said.
Seventeen Anganwadi workers and four supervisors of Pratapgarh were suspended after raids led to the recovery of large quantities of food grain meant for the scheme in the warehouse of a private trader in Rae Bareli.
The video is of Siyur Primary School under Jamalpur block and it shows a woman distributing rotis and another woman giving salt to children as the mid-day meal. Authorities suspended two teachers, apparently in an immediate damage control exercise.
The students of Rambhau Mhalgi secondary school complained of nausea after eating 'masala rice' around 11 am, following which they were rushed to nearby hospital, a Bharti Vidyapeeth police station officer said.
The information was shared by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha on whether a plan is under consideration for introducing breakfasts in mid-day meals.
Six-year-old Shivam fell into a pot of hot vegetable curry while standing in a queue for a midday meal.
Akshaya Patra Foundation supplies food over 15 lakh school children across the country now.
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
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.
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.
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.
More than 30 madrasas in Ujjain have refused to accept mid-day meals for students provided by the Iskcon Temple trust, a Hindu organisation.
Out of her job for three years now, 36-year-old Urmila Kuwar, found help from the district’s senior bureaucrat in the state
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
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.
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
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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