Midday Meal Deaths

The head of a children's orphanage in Bihar's Vaishali district was arrested today, three days after a child died and 10 fell ill after eating contaminated food, officials said.

The midday meal tragedy has exposed the chronic neglect of government school education in Bihar.

Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...

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.

The Bihar government today denied receiving any alert from the Centre over shortcomings in its implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. 23 children died after being poisoned by the free lunch at their school in Chhapra on Tuesday. The state government insists that the food was 'poisonous'.

The head of a children's orphanage in Bihar's Vaishali district was arrested today, three days after a child died and 10 fell ill after eating contaminated food, officials said.

The midday meal tragedy has exposed the chronic neglect of government school education in Bihar.

Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...

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.

The Bihar government today denied receiving any alert from the Centre over shortcomings in its implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. 23 children died after being poisoned by the free lunch at their school in Chhapra on Tuesday. The state government insists that the food was 'poisonous'.