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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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Midday Meal Utensils Kept In Toilet In Madhya Pradesh School
Children of a government school in Madhya Pradesh have been eating midday meals prepared outside the school's toilet and using utensils stored inside the toilet, the authorities have found. Photos show midday meal cooks sitting near a stove with firewood about them, in front of the soot-stained yellow wall of the toilet right next to the open stove...
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89 Per Cent Mid-Day Meals In Delhi Below Nutritional Standards: Government Auditor
Eighty nine per cent of cooked midday meal samples in Delhi during the period 2010-14 failed to meet prescribed nutritional standards as per a test conducted by an agency engaged for this purpose, the Comptroller and Auditor General or CAG has found.
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No lessons learnt? Mid-day meal cooked on septic tank next to toilet
Food for schoolchildren prepared right next to toilets - a midday meal horror story emerging from Tamil Nadu just 2 days after 23 children died in Bihar after being served lunch infected with insecticide in a government-run school.
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Kapil Sibal wants subsidy on LPG to continue for midday meal
Human Resource and Development Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested to Petroleum Ministry to continue providing cooking gas or LPG at subsidised rate for the midday meal programme this fiscal amid concerns that the scheme could be hit by the cap of 6 cylinders per year imposed by the government.
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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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Midday Meal Utensils Kept In Toilet In Madhya Pradesh School
Children of a government school in Madhya Pradesh have been eating midday meals prepared outside the school's toilet and using utensils stored inside the toilet, the authorities have found. Photos show midday meal cooks sitting near a stove with firewood about them, in front of the soot-stained yellow wall of the toilet right next to the open stove...
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89 Per Cent Mid-Day Meals In Delhi Below Nutritional Standards: Government Auditor
Eighty nine per cent of cooked midday meal samples in Delhi during the period 2010-14 failed to meet prescribed nutritional standards as per a test conducted by an agency engaged for this purpose, the Comptroller and Auditor General or CAG has found.
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No lessons learnt? Mid-day meal cooked on septic tank next to toilet
Food for schoolchildren prepared right next to toilets - a midday meal horror story emerging from Tamil Nadu just 2 days after 23 children died in Bihar after being served lunch infected with insecticide in a government-run school.
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Kapil Sibal wants subsidy on LPG to continue for midday meal
Human Resource and Development Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested to Petroleum Ministry to continue providing cooking gas or LPG at subsidised rate for the midday meal programme this fiscal amid concerns that the scheme could be hit by the cap of 6 cylinders per year imposed by the government.
