Panel favours packing of midday meal

GURGAON: The cooking cost given under the Midday Meal Scheme to all primary and upper primary schools in Haryana has been raised by 7.5%. After the raise the cooking cost would now be Rs 3.34 per day per student in all primary schools and Rs 5 per ...

Cheap rice has long been the staple of India's food politics. MGR rolled out the much-talked about free midday-meal scheme for schoolchildren. When in power, the DMK has also had a go at bringing down the price of idli.

The standing committee of Parliament has sought the views of HRD ministry on serving packaged food to children under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme.

The flagship midday meal scheme at government schools got an allocation of Rs13,215 crore (over Rs130 billion). He added that thousands of scholarships would be given to girl students, and those belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) NHRC today sought reports from Delhi government and the three Municipal Corporations of the city in connection with school children allegedly being served substandard food under mid-day meal scheme.The National Human Rights ...

As many as 300 bags of rice meant for mid-day meal (MDM) scheme were seized by the Jajpur Road police from Tarini market in Vyas Nagar municipality on Monday night. The rice bags, issued for the school children of Dangadi block in the district under ...

Ensure total coverage of schools under WS, sanitation SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday impressed upon the Education Department to ensure 100 percent coverage of schools under Drinking Water Supply (DWS) and sanitation facility adding ...

To reduce the number of school dropouts in north Karnataka and to give the bank visibility in the region, (KVG Bank), a , has come up with a novel scheme styled Light for Homework. "The scheme is built on the lines of the Bisi-Oota (mid-day meal) ...

The Samajika Parivartana Janandolana, a collective of various child rights organisations, has urged the State government to provide midday meals to all students in government and government-aided schools studying in classes from one to eight during ...