Action against three Uttar Pradesh schools making students cook meals

September 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six students of a private engineering college have been detained for allegedly ragging a student in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said Thursday. Police detained the six students, who are in their second year at Ganeshi Lal Narayandas Institute of Technology, Wednesday night for ragging Vikas Parashar, a first year student.

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.

June 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday warned colleges in the state against ban on wearing jeans on campuses, and said it would not tolerate any dress restriction and will take legal action against educational institutions implementing it. "We have come to know that several colleges are mulling a proposal to ban jeans, while some colleges have already issued an order in this regard.

June 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday issued a stern notice to all colleges in the state not to impose any ban on jeans for girl students or face punitive actions. "Action will be taken against any college aided by the Government of UP if anything is done against the law of the land," said Kamran Rizvi , Education Secretary.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The class 12 results of the Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education will be declared May 27, a statement Saturday said. The results will be uploaded onto the websites www.results.upeducation.net and www.examresults.net.

May 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.

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.

March 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six students of an army school, who had come for a picnic, drowned Sunday when they were bathing in the Gomti river in Uttar Pradesh, the police said. The mishap took place near the Korriya ghat in Sitapur district, 80 km from here, district police chief Pritendra Singh told IANS by telephone.

March 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Saying it was meant to serve as a deterrent, a court in Haryana has jailed five teachers for seven years for siphoning off funds meant for providing mid-day meals to government school students. The teachers, including a headmaster, have been charged with siphoning off funds for providing mid-day meals to poor students of a government primary school near Safidon town in Jind district, 250 km from here.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday said that it has finalised its pre-poll alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with some influence in western Uttar Pradesh. 'The alliance with the RLD has been finalised.

January 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.

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 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Newsreading is to be included in the curriculum of 25,000 government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh to improve the general knowledge and presentation skills of students. 'This new concept has been approved and will be launched in a full-fledged way this month in selected districts in primary and upper primary schools,' state additional basic education director Vinay Kumar Gill told IANS.

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.