Mid Day Meal

    In the country to attract kids of poor families to get education, Government of India started ‘Mid Day Meal Scheme’ across country in the government primary and middle schools almost decade ago. In most of cases poor families kids skip to get education due to their family financial requirements because if they attend schools then it can put effect on their financial set up as two hands lessen in the contribution. From its side government started the scheme for the welfare of kids of poor section of society but the way food is prepared and raw material goes making the meal, often shocking story published in the newspapers is enough to shake anybody, as in score of cases it had seen that prepared food contains insects, lizards, fungus or even in some cases snakes. Endorsing on to the chaos of Mid Day Meal in its report in the year 2009 Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has coded that due to lack of correct measures in implementing Mid Day Meal, it is failed in almost country’s every state, and wherever it is continue it is not best in any form, as below coded are reports publish in newspaper in recent time related to Mid Day Meal which were neither from good eatable stuff nor prepared stuff was eatable by Human Beings-

• One of the school in Bihar students deny to accept Mid Day Meal because of stench from prepared food and students protest for transfer of school Principal.
• One of school in  West Bengal in the Mid Day Meal they cook snake along with rice which were made for kids, snake was not poisonous that is why kids were ill after eating the rice otherwise it can be horrifying condition.
• One of the primary school in New Delhi it was found live insects in the material of pulses and rice during inspection.
• Food stuff sent by ISKON food relief foundation Mirzapur of Thanesar, Haryana to government schools, after eating food stuff physical condition of forty seven students were deteriorated, as it was found that there was lizard in the food items ,immediately taking action on to the situation concerned school send alert to other schools not to eat the food items, but kids who ate it become sick.
• One of the school in Sirsa, fungus case comes to limelight in the Mid Day Meal, students were not ready to accept it,plus they complaint of it to the sarpanch of village. As per words of sarpanch it was due to storing the material in the dark room. Shockingly same school’s one of the Mid Day Meal beneficiary kid reveal that they were getting from the school stench meal and he often skip to eat it.
• In kurkshetra area of Haryana Mid Day Meal send by ISKON forty one students fell ill, taking action on to the situation ADC of Kurkshetra said now students will be served food only after it is eaten by the teachers.

Mid day Meal is prepared by the students and teachers,  and it is found that in score of cases there is not hygienic kitchen rooms and during preparations of  Mid Day Meal it is not prepared with care, hence anything falls in the food stuff it also cook, so it the responsibility of government to instruct all the government schools to prepare eatable, hygienic, stench less food, other wise it is just wastage of money on to the name of Mid Day Meal.