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7 states and UTs push to add breakfast to school meals, Centre still weighing costs
October 28, 2025 4:37 pm
Seven States and UTs formally urge the Centre to expand PM-POSHAN in line with the NEP, citing gains in attendance and learning.
Criminal case against supplier if poor ingredients in mid-day meals cause food poisoning in Maharashtra
August 04, 2025 10:41 pm
The GR stated that the SOPs have been introduced as incidents of food poisoning after students consume midday meals had been observed in the state.
Soon, centralised kitchens for midday meal in Gujarat government schools to address malnutrition
August 01, 2025 10:55 pm
The project will be implemented across 66 talukas. For these centralised kitchens, cluster-mapping has been carried out with the aim that meals reach each school within 90 minutes of cooking.
Maharashtra issues SOPs to strengthen midday-meal safety in schools
August 01, 2025 10:35 pm
The SOPs also state that the prepared food must first be tasted by an adult—such as the server, a teacher, a parent, or another school staff member—on a rotational basis before being served to students
25 years after it started, Bengal school scraps ‘separate’ midday meals for student of different communities hours after probe begins
June 26, 2025 5:09 am
The school has, since 2000, maintained separate kitchens and utensils for preparing meals, with two cooks as well. Although meals have been cooked on a single gas connection, food has been served to students in separate classrooms based on their religion.
Midday meal workers at school in Haryana's Nuh not paid for 10 months, lawyer writes to NHRC
May 29, 2025 2:54 pm
According to the NHRC complaint, many of the midday meal workers have served the CBSE school in Nuh for 10 to 15 years preparing and serving meals to students daily.
Man arrested for contaminating midday meal kitchen at government school in Telangana’s Adilabad
April 17, 2025 9:34 am
The Adilabad police said teachers at the government school found the kitchen door broken and a white substance on utensils.
Vigilance during midday meals, morning assemblies: Bengal schools directed to take measures against stray dogs
April 02, 2025 12:17 pm
A directive was issued by the Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission following a letter from the department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education (MoE).
Express View on Maharashtra midday meals: Not without egg
February 04, 2025 7:00 am
The government's decision to withdraw eggs from midday meals could exacerbate under-nutrition in the state
What came before, eggs in midday meal or opposition to it? Maharashtra move on familiar course
February 04, 2025 7:52 am
State government says it can no longer fund egg pulao and a sweet dish, urges schools to bring it on the table through public funding. Only three BJP-ruled states now provide eggs to schoolchildren in mid-day emals
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