Every fortnight, scores of madrasas in Bengal have been coming alive amid the lockdown. But those attending the “classes” are not the students but their parents. They are being taught how...

A sudden visit by Hooghly MP, Locket Chatterjee, to a high school in Chinsurah on Monday revealed that students were being given only boiled rice and salt for midday meals.Chinsurah Balika Bani Mandir...

The human resource development ministry has increased the cooking cost outlay for the midday meal by a little over 5 per cent for this financial year, six months of which have already passed.The 5.35 ...

A school here is using the midday meal scheme to serve students a good treat. As part of its midday-meal scheme, a high school here has launched project “Sneho Bhojan” (meal of love) that will all...

Over 100 schools in Assam’s Udalguri district and 30 in Lakhimpur on Wednesday refused to receive midday meals from one of the 15 NGOs engaged by the state government to prepare and supply lunch.Th...

Midday meal workers on Wednesday warned of a hunger strike after talks with the Assam government on their demands remained inconclusive. The meeting was held between 15 delegates of the All Assam Prim...

Members of the All Assam Primary and Upper Primary Midday Meal Cook and Helper Association blocked national highways across the state on Sunday despite chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s announceme...

Deuri said, “Primary schools in Udalguri district are ready to receive the cooked meals. But the NGO has been constantly failing to cover all listed schools everyday ever since the inception of its ...

A four-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh died after falling into a large utensil containing boiling vegetables meant for a school midday meal, with the cook allegedly failing to hear other children’s c...

When Thursday’s Union cabinet meeting ended, the 25 lakh-odd cook-cum-helpers engaged under the government’s free midday meal scheme for schoolchildren were left disappointed.Their hopes of a pay ...