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Chhattisgarh Mid-Day Meal Cooks, Earning Rs 66 A Day, Protest For Wage Hike
It's been 22 days since thousands of mid-day meal cooks, mostly women, have been protesting in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur, demanding a hike in their daily wages from Rs 66 to over Rs 400.
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Cook Suspended Day After Worms Found In Rice In Karnataka Mid-Day Meal
A day after worms were found in the mid-day meal served to government schools in Karnataka's Koppal district, the district administration suspended the cook and two staff members for negligence.
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Goa Government Hikes Cooking Cost Of School Midday Meals
The Goa government on Friday hiked the cooking cost per student for its flagship midday meal scheme, which will be implemented from November 7, an official said.
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Delhi Government To Hire Agency To Test Mid-Day Meals To Ensure Nutritional Food For Students
The midday meal or PM-POSHAN scheme, under which hot cooked meals are served to address the nutritional needs of children, covers government and government-aided school students of Classes 1-8, as well as pre-primary classes.
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Uttarakhand Cook, Allegedly Sacked Over Caste, Reappointed: Official
A Dalit woman cook was reappointed at a Champawat school in Uttarakhand, days after she was sacked as some students belonging to upper castes refused to eat midday meal cooked by her.
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Delhi Asked To Give Directions For Distribution Of Food, Cash To Students
Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Delhi government on a plea seeking directions to provide cooked midday meal or food security allowance to all eligible students amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Cook On Phone, 3-Year-Old Falls Into Cooking Pot In UP School, Dies
A three-year-old girl died after falling into a boiling pot of vegetables being cooked under the midday meal scheme at a school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, officials said on Monday. The family members of the child alleged the cook had earphones plugged in and did not pay attention to the children who were playing dangerously close near the stove.
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Minister's Bizarre Comments On Cooking Inside Toilet At Health Centre
A minister in Madhya Pradesh has said a toilet can also be used as a kitchen, provided there is a partition that separates the two. The comments by state Women and Child Development Minister Imarti Devi came after Anganwadi workers at a public health centre in the state's Shivpuri district were found cooking midday meals inside a toilet, with utens...
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Midday Meals Cooked Inside Toilet At This Madhya Pradesh Anganwadi
A toilet in Madhya Pradesh is being used for reasons beyond its intended purpose. In complete departure of hygienic norms the toilet in Shivpuri district's rural child care centre has been converted into a full-fledged kitchen.
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Rajasthan Cook Fired For Throwing Mid-Day Meal Touched By Dalit Student
A woman cook was today removed from a government school in Rajasthan's Udaipur district after she allegedly threw away the midday meal touched by a girl student who belonged to a lower caste, the school principal said.
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Chhattisgarh Mid-Day Meal Cooks, Earning Rs 66 A Day, Protest For Wage Hike
It's been 22 days since thousands of mid-day meal cooks, mostly women, have been protesting in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur, demanding a hike in their daily wages from Rs 66 to over Rs 400.
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Cook Suspended Day After Worms Found In Rice In Karnataka Mid-Day Meal
A day after worms were found in the mid-day meal served to government schools in Karnataka's Koppal district, the district administration suspended the cook and two staff members for negligence.
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Goa Government Hikes Cooking Cost Of School Midday Meals
The Goa government on Friday hiked the cooking cost per student for its flagship midday meal scheme, which will be implemented from November 7, an official said.
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Delhi Government To Hire Agency To Test Mid-Day Meals To Ensure Nutritional Food For Students
The midday meal or PM-POSHAN scheme, under which hot cooked meals are served to address the nutritional needs of children, covers government and government-aided school students of Classes 1-8, as well as pre-primary classes.
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Uttarakhand Cook, Allegedly Sacked Over Caste, Reappointed: Official
A Dalit woman cook was reappointed at a Champawat school in Uttarakhand, days after she was sacked as some students belonging to upper castes refused to eat midday meal cooked by her.
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Delhi Asked To Give Directions For Distribution Of Food, Cash To Students
Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Delhi government on a plea seeking directions to provide cooked midday meal or food security allowance to all eligible students amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Cook On Phone, 3-Year-Old Falls Into Cooking Pot In UP School, Dies
A three-year-old girl died after falling into a boiling pot of vegetables being cooked under the midday meal scheme at a school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, officials said on Monday. The family members of the child alleged the cook had earphones plugged in and did not pay attention to the children who were playing dangerously close near the stove.
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Minister's Bizarre Comments On Cooking Inside Toilet At Health Centre
A minister in Madhya Pradesh has said a toilet can also be used as a kitchen, provided there is a partition that separates the two. The comments by state Women and Child Development Minister Imarti Devi came after Anganwadi workers at a public health centre in the state's Shivpuri district were found cooking midday meals inside a toilet, with utens...
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Midday Meals Cooked Inside Toilet At This Madhya Pradesh Anganwadi
A toilet in Madhya Pradesh is being used for reasons beyond its intended purpose. In complete departure of hygienic norms the toilet in Shivpuri district's rural child care centre has been converted into a full-fledged kitchen.
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Rajasthan Cook Fired For Throwing Mid-Day Meal Touched By Dalit Student
A woman cook was today removed from a government school in Rajasthan's Udaipur district after she allegedly threw away the midday meal touched by a girl student who belonged to a lower caste, the school principal said.
