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Centre clears ₹1,935 crore PM POSHAN budget for state, flags gaps in school nutrition

Centre clears <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,935 crore PM POSHAN budget for state, flags gaps in school nutrition

Published 14 days ago

Extend midday meal scheme to higher secondary students immediately, PMK urges TN govt

Extend midday meal scheme to higher secondary students immediately, PMK urges TN govt

Published 48 days ago

UP teacher suspended over mid-day meal malpractice allegations

The Pallia BEO reported that the accused teacher was absent from duty without leave and had been neglecting educational standards.

Updated 58 days ago

Energy bars under probe as mid-day meals serve ‘expired' products in schools

Probe into energy bars, mid-day meals in civic schools

Updated 138 days ago

‘ ₹25,000 each to 84 students’: Chhattisgarh HC over dog-soiled mid-day meal

While awarding the compensation to the pupils, the bench did not take into account the state's argument that the affected students were found to be fit after a subsequent health check-up.

Published 347 days ago

78 Chhattisgarh students get anti-rabies vaccine after contaminated mid-day meal

Parents took the children to the nearest health centre, and 78 of them were administered the anti-rabies vaccine.

Updated 365 days ago

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 537 days ago

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 544 days ago

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 558 days ago

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 644 days ago

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 743 days ago

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 983 days ago

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 1164 days ago

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 1168 days ago

Bengaluru: Nearly 80 per cent students demand eggs in mid-day meal, finds poll

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Published 1284 days ago

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 1288 days ago

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 1297 days ago

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 1393 days ago

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 1526 days ago

Uttarakhand: Students refuse midday meal by Dalit cook again

Uttarakhand: Students refuse midday meal by Dalit cook again

Updated 1535 days ago

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 1551 days ago

Dalit woman reinstated as school cook

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Published 1675 days ago

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 1678 days ago

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 1681 days ago

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 1727 days ago

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 1768 days ago

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