The country’s 25 lakh school midday meal workers who are paid far below the minimum wage are “honorary workers” doing voluntary social service, the Centre told Parliament on Monday, ...

A school at the southernmost tip of West Bengal had 1,280 students in March 2020, just before the nationwide Covid curbs were imposed. When offline classes finally resumed in February this year, the ...

The Odisha government is all set to resume the midday meal scheme from April. All the schools reopened and classes resumed in the state from February 28 and this is the first time in two years that t...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday requested the Narendra Modi government to immediately resume the midday meal scheme, arguing that children had been the worst affected by the pandemic both...

For 50-year-old Saroj, supporting her four-member family with a paltry honorarium of Rs 3,500 a month she gets for cooking food at a government primary school in Haryana is a daily struggle. “I...

A section of students are staying away from primary classes in government schools even after in-person classes resumed because most of them have started working. These children are engaged in small f...

Jharkhand is likely to resume providing cooked meals to government school students of classes 6 to 8 under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme after a gap of almost two years, sources in the School Educatio...

Around 28 per cent of pupils in government-run primary schools in Bengal have got almost disconnected from academic activities, and a balanced diet has become a distant dream for a significant proport...

Kerala High Court on Tuesday ordered the Lakshadweep administration to restore the old midday meal menu in schools which had beef and chicken and stayed the auction of cows from the dairy farms that w...

Yes Right to food The global definition of the right to food means right to culturally accepted food for the people. No government or authority can impose a particular type of food habit that is ali...