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Odisha to provide mid-day meals to govt school students of Class 9 and 10

Odisha government will provide mid-day meals to school students of Class 9 and 10, CM Mohan Majhi announced. (File/Hindustan Times)
Published on Feb 12, 2025 12:57 PM IST

Odisha IAS officers asked to taste mid-day meals in schools

The officers have been asked to interact with the members of the public from different walks of life, patients in community health centres, primary health centres, beneficiaries in Anganwadi centres, and tribal girls in schools and hostels.
Published on Feb 05, 2025 08:17 PM IST

T’gana may implement midday meal scheme for classes 11, 12

At present, the mid-day meals scheme in Telangana has been implemented across 26,519 government schools in the state, benefitting 2.036 million students from class 5 to 10. (PTI)
Updated on Jan 22, 2025 07:00 AM IST

Maharashtra polls: Failed state education policies could affect results

Frustration has been building among parents, teachers and students in the last two to three years due to a range of policy changes that has disrupted the learning process for students. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Oct 28, 2024 09:26 AM IST

Karnataka's midday meal scheme expanded to include eggs six days a week

Previously, Karnataka’s midday meal program included eggs only two days a week.
Published on Jul 21, 2024 01:45 PM IST

Karnataka: Man alleges daughter forcefully fed eggs in school; Govt orders probe

As part of the inquiry, the Block Education officer and the Midday meal attender visited the school on Thursday.
Published on Nov 24, 2023 08:49 AM IST

Centre seeks reports from Bihar, MP over ‘artificial, low’ midday meal coverage

The PAB advised the state to take up special measures to increase the coverage and sought an action taken report by September (Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Updated on May 27, 2023 08:00 AM IST

Team to probe Kerala’s ‘highly improbable’ data on midday meal: Centre

A senior ministry official, who asked not to be named, said that last year also the state reported very high coverage under the scheme
Updated on May 23, 2023 05:45 PM IST

Maharashtra: This govt school in a village of 150 people has only one student

Kishore Mankar, the teacher, with his only student. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Jan 23, 2023 08:15 AM IST

Centre to send team to review implementation of Midday Meal scheme in Bengal

Centre to send team to review implementation of Midday Meal scheme in Bengal
Published on Jan 14, 2023 08:16 PM IST

Midday meal cooking cost hiked after finance ministry nod

Under the PM POSHAN scheme, the cost of cooking gets the largest allocation among all components, including the prices of ingredients such as cereals, pulses, vegetables, cooking oil and other condiments. (PTI Photo)
Updated on Oct 10, 2022 04:30 AM IST

Centre gives nod to Goa’s plan to serve eggs in midday meal

In 2020, the Goa government announced it would add eggs in the school midday meals, but the plan was delayed because schools closed in the wake of the pandemic. (HT file photo)
Updated on May 30, 2022 02:05 AM IST

Uttarakhand: Students refuse midday meal by Dalit cook again

Uttarakhand: Students refuse midday meal by Dalit cook again
Updated on May 21, 2022 12:46 AM IST

Journalist Pawan Jaiswal, who exposed 'salt-roti' mid-day meal, dies

Journalist Pawan Jaiswal had filmed students of a government school in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal in August.
Updated on May 05, 2022 07:27 PM IST

Dalit woman reinstated as school cook

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Published on Jan 01, 2022 02:08 AM IST

K'taka: 80 students fall ill after eating mid-day meal served with dead lizard

Government schools are mandated to provide a mid-day meal to all students to encourage attendance and ensure adequate nutrition. (Representational Image)
Updated on Dec 28, 2021 10:17 PM IST

Complete social audit of midday meal scheme; provide status by Dec 30: Centre 

About 1.1 million government schools are covered under the welfare programme.
Updated on Dec 26, 2021 01:22 AM IST

BJP slams state order for teachers to sell jute bags used in midday meal scheme

Jharkhand education minister Jagarnath Mahato, however, said there will be no disturbance in teaching due to the order and the government is also willing to review it. (PTI)
Published on Nov 10, 2021 06:43 PM IST

Midday meal expands to PM-Poshan scheme

The midday meal scheme was launched in 1995 with an aim to provide at least one nutritional meal to elementary school students
Updated on Sep 30, 2021 05:54 AM IST

Uttarakhand govt to give food safety allowance to over 6 lakh students not getting mid-day meals amid lockdown

Students having mid-day meal at a government school in Dehradun.
Updated on Apr 16, 2020 05:34 PM IST

Kitchen gardens in schools can improve nutritional levels

Residents of Kohinoor Apartments working at their quarter of an acre organic kitchen garden at Kurla (West) in Mumbai.
Published on Oct 27, 2019 10:57 PM IST

Ludhiana teachers pool money to feed govt school kids under midday meal scheme

The midday meal scheme was launched in government schools to increase enrolment and retention, among kids from poor families.
Updated on Oct 11, 2019 10:45 PM IST

Midday meal scheme has worked: Keep politics out

Adding milk and eggs to the meal would help aid child nutrition and prevent stunting
Published on Sep 04, 2019 07:02 PM IST

UP books reporter after video on school serving salt, roti in mid-day meal

The incident took place at government primary school, Shiur in Mirzapur.
Updated on Sep 02, 2019 03:51 PM IST

UP school children get salt, roti under scheme meant to up nutrition intake

The matter came to light when a video showing children being served only ‘chappatis’ went viral on social media and someone sent the video to the district magistrate.
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 09:31 AM IST

Kids to grow vegetables, fruits for midday meal scheme in UP

Some schools in the state already have their kitchen garden raised by teachers and students much before these instructions came.
Updated on Aug 06, 2019 04:50 PM IST

Students to grow vegetables, fruits for midday meal scheme in UP

School kids eating chapati and daal with salt which were served to them during interval as mid-day meal
Updated on Aug 06, 2019 10:45 AM IST