Mid-day Meal Protest

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  Meal Boycott In Uttarakhand School After Cook Allegedly Sacked Over Caste

  Dalit students at a government school in Uttarakhand's Champawat district refused to eat mid-day meals cooked by an upper-caste woman after a cook from the Scheduled Caste community was sacked allegedly following protests over her caste.

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  Journalists Protest Case Against Reporter For 'Roti-Salt In School' Video

  More than 100 journalists protested today at the Mirzapur Collectorate office, a day after a case was filed by the state government against a reporter who filmed students at a UP government school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal.

• 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.

• Test mid-day meals on stray dogs, say teachers in Madhya Pradesh

  If it is not fit enough for dogs, it surely can't be served to human beings - that's the logic espoused by teachers in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh who are up in arms against the state government's latest order which requires them to taste mid-day meals before they are served to children in schools. So, the protesting teachers have proposed ...

• Children demanding better mid-day meals in Bihar clash with teachers

  Anger is building up in the area around the village in Bihar which has buried 23 children this week after they were poisoned by a free lunch at school.

• 21 children dead in Bihar after eating mid-day meal, protests erupt

  21 children are now dead after eating a free mid-day meal at their school in Bihar's Chhapra district, many of them below ten years of age. More than 30 others are in hospital.

• Bengal student found hanging after protesting about school meals

  Members of the managing committee of a high school and its teacher-in-charge were severely beaten up today, after the body of a 14-year-old student was found hanging in the school premises at Jharkhali in the Sundarbans area of South 24 Parganas district, 54 kms from Kolkata.

• Pune: Mid-day meal deal scrapped after complaint from parents

  Parents of students of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-managed Krida Niketan School at Saritanagari on Sinhagad Road on Thursday demonstrated on the school premises against the alleged distribution of stale fruits and food under the mid-day meal scheme.The parents said school principal Jyoti Mankar was transferred by the PMC's school board whe...