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Uproar over half-cooked mid-day meal in City
UPROARIOUS SCENES were witnessed in the Bhopal Municipal Corporation Council meeting today over the alleged distribution of poor quality food under the mid-day meal scheme in City schools. Though the issue was raised by a Congress corporator, it backfired on the Congress-ruled BMC administration.
UPROARIOUS SCENES were witnessed in the Bhopal Municipal Corporation Council meeting today over the alleged distribution of poor quality food under the mid-day meal scheme in City schools. Though the issue was raised by a Congress corporator, it backfired on the Congress-ruled BMC administration.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress corporators created ruckus during the meeting and levelled charges against each other about the alleged distribution of poor quality food.
The issue was raised by the corporator from ward 13, Munawwar Ali, who produced a chapatti, which he claimed was distributed among children under the scheme. He claimed that similar under-prepared chapattis were being served in mid-day meal.
He was joined by other Congress corporators, who said the State Government was responsible for the mid-day meal. On the other hand, the BJP corporators said that it was BMC’s responsibility to monitor the quality of food.
There was more noise when Mayor Sunil Sood said that it was the State Government that had told the BMC to provide the work of mid-day meal preparation to Nandi Foundation.
The BJP corporators, including Lily Agrawal, Alok Sanjar, Mukesh Rai and others, alleged that the Mayor was shirking his responsibility of monitoring the mid-day meal. They asked as to why the BMC did not take any action if the quality of food was not found satisfactory.
The corporators of both the groups started shouting slogans against each other and some of them even moved into the well of the house. The BJP corporators gathered around the Mayor’s chair and started demanding his resignation. On the other hand, the Congress corporators shouted slogans against the State Government and BMC chairman, who is a BJP member.
Amidst this, Sood said that the contract with Nandi Foundation should be cancelled. The ruckus continued for about 15 minutes before the BMC chairman Ramdayal Prajapati pacified the members.
Chairman slams Mayor
AN ANGRY Bhopal Municipal Corporation chairman Ramdayal Prajapati today harshly condemned Mayor Sunil Sood, when the later refused to take the responsibility of alleged distribution of under-prepared food. The State Government provides funds to the municipal bodies to run the mid-day meal schemes in the schools situated in their limits.
Prajapati and Sood shouted at each other when Sood said that the action should be taken against the ministers of State Cabinet in this case. This was for the first time in the BMC when the chair criticised the Mayor’s conduct.
