105 schools to face action for mid-day meal irregularities

September 24th, 2009 Wal-Mart to pay Mass. $3M to settle meals claimsBOSTON — The Massachusetts attorney general says Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $3 million to settle complaints that it didn't give some employees proper meal breaks.

September 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Fifteen teachers of government-run primary schools in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district will face action for "not being able to perform simple arithmetic calculations", officials said Wednesday. The education department Wednesday recommended that the teachers should not be given a pay hike and also proposed a cut in their salary.

August 1st, 2009 BHOPAL - The directive issued by the Madhya Pradesh Government on reciting 'Bhojan mantra', a Hindu chant before partaking of midday meals by students in the state-run schools, has stirred a controversy as Muslims claim it to be against their belief. The directive by the state government that would come into force from September 5, 2009, has stirred controversy as Muslims say it should not be forced on them.

July 28th, 2009 BHOPAL - One would expect the enrolment of children in primary schools to increase with the implementation of the midday meal scheme. This, however, has not been the case in Madhya Pradesh.

July 24th, 2009 PATNA - Five people, including the headmaster and two teachers, were arrested in Bihar's Nalanda district after a lizard was found in the mid-day meals served to school children, officials said Friday. In the last three weeks various such cases have been reported in the state.

July 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government has directed schools to keep a complaint box in which students and parents can put in their grievances regarding corporal punishment, officials said Wednesday. Nearly 16,000 schools across the state are getting ready to comply with the order.

July 1st, 2009 Murar (Gwalior), July 1ANI): The Government of Madhya Pradesh continued to provide mid-day meals to their children in schools during the summer vacations. The state government ordered for the distribution of mid day meal during the summer vacations so that the children belonging to poor families could have nutritional food.

May 25th, 2009 PATNA - The headmasters of four primary schools in Bihar's Darbhanga district were suspended for irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme for schoolchildren, officials said Monday. The headmasters were suspended Saturday after an enquiry found them guilty of corruption.

May 23rd, 2009 PATNA - After he was caught stealing rice meant for schoolchildren's lunch, the headmaster of a primary school in Bihar's Begusarai district has been banned from the school by irate villagers, police said Saturday. Pitambar Pathak, headmaster of a government-run school in Puwari Tola village under Teghra block of the district, 126 km from state capital Patna, was caught selling rice to a local trader Monday by the villagers, police officers said.

April 23rd, 2009 GORAKHPUR - Midday meal programme has been successful in Uttar Pradesh in getting the rural young boys and girls to attend schools and study. This scheme was mooted by the Central Government with an aim to increase the enhance enrolment of children in the schools, improve their attendance and also the nutrition levels amongst children.

April 4th, 2009 AURANGABAD - Mid day meal schemes introduced by the Congress government for school going children is showing positive results in Aurangabad in Maharashtra. In Aurangabad alone, the scheme is currently running in about 296 government aided schools.

March 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Authorities of three government schools in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district will face action for making students prepare lunch under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme, an official said Friday. 'We will take stern action against the staff of three government schools in Banda district, where students prepare the meal,' basic education officer Omkar Rana told IANS on telephone from Banda, some 200 km from Lucknow.

January 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Teachers and principals of over 100 government-run primary schools in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district will face action for irregularities in the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme, an official said Saturday. 'These teachers are under scanner for not providing regular lunch to their students under the MDM scheme,' official in-charge of basic education in Etawah Naresh Verma told IANS on phone.

January 7th, 2009 PATNA - Over 100,000 fake certificates of various Indian universities have been found in a Bihar town, police said Thursday, even as the government cracks down on irregularities in the education system. Acting on a tip off, a police team raided five places in Biharsharif town in Nalanda district, 100 km from here, and unearthed the racket in fake certificates.

December 24th, 2008 CHANDIGARH - Middle-level bureaucrats in the union territory of Chandigarh will now supervise the preparation of mid-day meals for government school children in the city. The Chandigarh administration has ordered that all civil servants from Haryana and Punjab cadre on deputation with the administration will visit the cooking institutes and schools to monitor the quality and hygiene of cooked meals under the mid-day meal scheme, an administration spokesman said here Thursday.