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    • India's high food inflation leaves less in lunch boxes of poor school children

      The three-decades old programme, intended to draw poor children into school and provide them with basic nutrition, throws into sharp relief the inflationary impact of food on the nation's most needy and the widening inequality in the world's fastest growing major economy

    • This Karnataka primary school offers a sweet deal for 100% attendance

      Since July 2021, the school in Gadag district provides one sweet to each student every day as part of the mid-day meal

    • Mega kitchen to serve hygienic mid-day meal to 50,000 govt school students

      The foundation stone of the mega kitchen was laid by Hazaribag MP Jayant Sinha on Sunday.

    • 30 kids fall sick after eating mid-day meal in Bengal. Staffer says snake found in lentils

      Around 30 students of a primary school in West Bengal's Birbhum district fell ill after consuming the food served to them in mid-day meal on Monday.

    • Cabinet approves Rs 1.31 lakh crore PM POSHAN Scheme for school students

      PM-POSHAN scheme will subsume the existing Mid-day meal scheme.

    • Breakfast in school proposal worth Rs 4,000 crore on agenda ahead of Budget session: Report

      This comes after a National Family Health Survey (NFHS) found “alarming decrease in children’s nutrition levels over 2015-2019 period” and 18 states reported increase in number of stunted, waster or underweight children under the age of 5,

    • India’s nutrition goals are stumped by execution challenges

      Lack of timely data and weak political will are trouble spots even though the government has “a clear intent” to make India free of malnutrition

    • 25 students fall ill after consuming mid-day meal at Delhi school, hospitalised

      According to hospital authorities, the children had complained of abdominal pain.

    • Budget 2017: Spend on education sector seen falling short

      Experts feel the Budget spend on education is woefully inadequate for a country which is aspiring to create a pool of skilled workforce to fuel economic growth.

    • Maharashtra to frame new rules for mid-day meal scheme

      Under the Government-run scheme, added responsibility had been given to the teaching community to supervise its implementation. These include placing orders for food, unloading food articles from vehicles in school premises, maintaining records of stock, distributing meal and checking their quality before being served to pupils.

    • Goa: 19 kids fall sick after eating mid-day meal at school

      This is the second such incident which has hit the state during this week. Earlier this week, around 22 students from St Joseph High School were referred to the hospital due to suspected food poisoning after eating the mid day meal.

    • 20 kids dead due to mid-day meals, Oppn asks Nitish to quit

      Tragedy struck Dharamsati village on Tuesday afternoon as more than 50 children, all aged between 8 and 12 years, fell seriously ill after eating the mid day meal at their school.

    • The good and bad of Food Security Bill

      The Cabinet recently passed the food security bill. But does it only make politically correct noises?

    • No subsidised LPG cylinders for mid-day meal programme

      The Petroleum Ministry has turned down a request of the HRD Ministry to allow supply of subsidised LPG cylinders for the mid-day meal programme.

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