Mid-day Meal Deaths

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  Man Allegedly Attacked In Bihar For Asking School Meal For Daughter, Dies

  A man was allegedly beaten to death in Bihar's Araria district on Wednesday by the principal and teachers of a school after he complained that his daughter was denied mid-day meal.

• Bihar orphanage head arrested for child's death

  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.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Chargesheet filed against principal

  A chargesheet was filed today against the school principal of a Bihar school for the death of 23 children who ate contaminated mid-day meal, police said.

• Mid-day meal resumes in Bihar school

  The mid-day meal was cooked for the first time in two months in a primary school in Bihar where 23 school children died after eating contaminated food in July, officials said on Tuesday.

• Girl dies after falling into mid-day meal curry cauldron in Odisha

  Banita Kahnhar, a Class 3 student of Sevashram School run by the Odisha government at Girishchandrapur village, accidentally fell into the vessel when the students were jostling to get the egg curry while the mid-day-meal was being served, police said.

• A month after Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, village still under trauma, grief

  A month after 23 children in a small Bihar village were literally served death on their plates, the trauma still lingers. The Chhapra mid-day meal tragedy became a flashpoint of an intense debate on the state of school mid-day meals, a scheme run across the country.

• Bihar Assembly adjourned after BJP, RJD protest over Chhapra mid-day meal deaths

  On Friday too, when the week-long session of the Assembly began, the opposition members had created a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

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

• Ruckus in Bihar assembly over mid-day meal disaster

  A week-long monsoon session of the Bihar assembly began today with opposition members creating a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

• Teachers should teach, not supervise cooking of meals, says court

  The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, more than a week after a poisonous lunch served in Bihar killed 23 children.