In a shocking incident, two individuals have been nabbed including a govt school teacher who were selling food meant for mid-day meal scheme in Bandipora district of J&K.
The accused were found selling rice in black meant to feed students on Sunday.
“Bandipora police arrested two persons including a govt school teacher in Ajas selling rice meant for day-meal scheme in black”, Taking to X, Bandipora police said.
The Bandipora police has taken cognizance of the incident registering a case.
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The Mid Day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme in India designed to better the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide.[1] The scheme has been renamed as PM-POSHAN Scheme. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in government primary and upper primary schools, government aided Anganwadis, Madarsa and Maqtabs. Serving 120 million children in over 1.27 million schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, the Midday Meal Scheme is the largest of its kind in the world.
Ajay Kumar Director of Poshan Abhiyaan Shared ‘The name of the scheme has been changed to PM-POSHAN (Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) Scheme, in September 2021, by MoE (Ministry of Education), which is the ministry responsible for the scheme’. The Central Government also announced that an additional 24 lakh students receiving pre-primary education at government & government-aided schools would also be included under the scheme by 2022.
Under article 24, paragraph 2c[9] of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which India is a party,[10] India has committed to yielding “adequate nutritious food” for children. The programme has undergone many changes since its launch in 1995. The Midday Meal Scheme is covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013. The legal backing to the Indian school meal programme is akin to the legal backing provided in the US through the National School Lunch Act.
