Essay about Bihar Mid-Day meal tragedy signals revamping.

A year after 23 school children in Bihar's Saran district died of insecticide poisoning after consuming food served under Mid Day Meal (MDM) Scheme, government agencies seem to have forgotten the serious concern over handling and banning of hazardous chemicals that the tragedy raised.

On July 18, nearly 155 students fell ill after consuming contaminated mid-day meal in Neyveli town in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district. The incident marred an otherwise excellent record the state holds in providing mid-day meals to poor children and retain them in school.

India News: Bihar minister Parween Amanullah was attacked and held up for some time by a mob in Vaishali district which was agitating over the midday meal tragedy.

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The Mid-day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. The roots of the programme can be traced back to the Pre-Independence era, when a Mid-day Meal Programme was introduced in 1925 in Madras Corporation by the British administration.

Patna: The indefinite strike by thousands of mid-day meal cooks, locally known as rasoiya, in Bihar completed one month on Thursday.To further intensify their struggle, the rasoiyas have now threatened to gherao the Bihar Assembly next week during the budget session, if the state government does not invite them for talks. Nutan Devi, Jhunia Devi, Savitri Devi and Tabassum Khatoon, all mid-day.

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Mid-day meals in India’s government schools were envisaged to stop hunger from keeping children away from schools and to improve enrolment. Children do come to school and meals get served, but.

This paper represents the overview of National Program of Nutritional support to primary education known as Mid Day Meal Scheme in Maharashtra. The malnutrition was widespread in India and other developing countries. The under nutrition and over nutrition may cause due to various reasons.

If the Mid-Day Meal is not provided in school on any school day due to non-availability of food grains or any other reason, the State Government shall pay food security allowance by 15 th of the succeeding month. The meal shall be prepared in accordance with the Mid Day Meal guidelines issued by the Central Government from time to time.

A mid-day meal scheme was introduced which aims to provide a cooked mid-day meal to all children attending primary school. Additionally, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) is a program which aims to achieve universal elementary education of satisfactory quality by the year 2010 (Create, 2009, p. 2).

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