Nine children injured as Delhi school bus overturnsSeptember 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two teachers and nine students of G.D. Goenka School suffered minor injuries when their bus turned turtle after being hit by a privately operated chartered bus in south Delhi early Tuesday, police said.
Delhi school stampede: Eight students still in hospitalSeptember 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eight of the 34 students injured in a stampede in a government school here last week are recovering in a hospital and will be discharged soon, an official said Monday. "Eight students are still in the hospital recovering from injuries while four were discharged Sunday.
Delhi school stampede: All injured students stableSeptember 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - All the students injured in a stampede Thursday in a government school here are stable and 19 of them have been discharged after treatment, an official said Saturday. All the students are fine now.
Hospital says 5 students killed, 24 injured in stampede in New Delhi schoolSeptember 10th, 2009 Stampede kills 5 at Indian schoolNEW DELHI — Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left at least five students dead and another 24 injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. Five of the injured were in critical condition, said O.P.
Five arrested after lizard found in mid-day mealJuly 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.
7-year-old dies after falling in hot midday meal bucketJuly 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - A seven-year-old girl died in a school near Ranchi after falling into a bucket full of hot daal (pulses) prepared for the midday meal, an official said Wednesday. Afsari Parveen, a class one student was standing in a queue waiting for the midday meal to be served.
Lizard in food, seven students criticalJuly 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Seven students were in critical condition Thursday after eating the mid-day meal in a Jharkhand school into which a lizard had fallen, police said. The incident occurred at the Rajkiya Madhya Vidalaya in Dhanbad district's Chungi Rajganj area, around 270 km from Ranchi.
105 schools to face action for mid-day meal irregularitiesMay 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Principals and teachers of around 105 government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district will face action for irregularities in the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme, an official said Wednesday. 'In the ongoing surprise inspection we found that the schools were not providing regular lunch to their students under the MDM scheme,' official in-charge of primary education in the district Mahendra Kumar told IANS on phone.
Midday meal scheme attracts students to schools in GorakhpurApril 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.
Corporal punishment: the victims before Shano KhanApril 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The news of 11-year-old schoolgirl Shano Khan succumbing to her injuries Friday after being beaten and punished by her teacher sent shock waves across all sections of society. But this is not an isolated incident as several students have either been humiliated or subjected to harsh punishment in school in the recent past.
Mid day meal showing positive results in MaharashtraApril 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.
10 Delhi students injured after caning from teacherMarch 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ten students of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school here suffered injuries after being beaten by their teacher for making noise in the classroom. The students of Class 3 in the MCD school, New Ashok Nagar, in east Delhi were beaten with a cane by Raj Kumar Wednesday, a police officer said.
40 students fall ill after eating foodMarch 8th, 2009 RANCHI - More than 40 school students in a Jharkhand school fell ill after eating a meal cooked using washing powder instead of salt, police said Saturday. The incident occurred Friday in Kargalo Middle School in Bishnugarh block of Hazaribagh district, some 130 km from here.
Action against three Uttar Pradesh schools making students cook mealsMarch 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.
Students in Uttar Pradesh refuse to eat food cooked by DalitJanuary 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Students of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh refused to eat food as a Dalit woman had cooked it, an official said Tuesday. The majority of students, belonging to the upper caste, refused to have lunch provided to them under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme by the Guraini Primary School in Khetaasrai village of Jaunpur, about 150 km from here.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
total cases nd fir mid day meal in started 2003 to till date nd m.c.d delhi suppler list.