Bihar Midday Meal

• Regulatory issues, midday meal kept HRD Ministry busy in 2013

  The Bihar midday meal tragedy claiming 23 lives came as a big setback for HRD Ministry as it remained engaged with a host of regulatory issues during 2013.

• Bihar orphanage head arrested for child's death

  The head of a children's orphanage in Bihar's Vaishali district was arrested today, three days after a child died and 10 fell ill after eating contaminated food, officials said.

• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Principal, husband charged with murder in chargesheet

  A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder in the chargesheet filed by police in a local court in the midday meal tragedy in a village primary school in Bihar's Saran district in July in which 23 students died.

• Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, state governments on unhygienic mid-day meals

  In the wake of the Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, in which 23 children died, the Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and 12 states seeking their response on preventing such incidents and providing hygienic food to children.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

  The midday meal tragedy has exposed the chronic neglect of government school education in Bihar.

• Nitish vs BJP: Relentless politics over the death of 23 children

  Exactly a week after 23 children, some as young as four, died from a poisoned school lunch, political parties remain committed to inscribing the tragedy with vicious agendas. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior ministers have found a conspiracy mantra and are sticking to it. They insist that that the food that was served as part of th...

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  No lessons learnt? Mid-day meal cooked on septic tank next to toilet

  Food for schoolchildren prepared right next to toilets - a midday meal horror story emerging from Tamil Nadu just 2 days after 23 children died in Bihar after being served lunch infected with insecticide in a government-run school.

• Bihar government denies alert from Centre on mid-day meal

  The Bihar government today denied receiving any alert from the Centre over shortcomings in its implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. 23 children died after being poisoned by the free lunch at their school in Chhapra on Tuesday. The state government insists that the food was 'poisonous'.

• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Critically ill children in their arms, parents took bikes, cycles to hospital

  Some of the 23 Bihar schoolchildren who died after being served lunch laced with insecticide in school may have survived if they had been treated in time. At least 4 children died while their frantic parents made an inexcusably long journey from hospital to hospital on motorbikes, cycles and tempos, in search of proper facilities

• 9 children die after eating mid-day meal in Bihar, 10 in critical condition

  Nine children have died in Bihar, allegedly as a result of food-poisoning from the free mid-day meal provided at their school near Chhapra in the central part of the state, 60 kms from the state capital Patna. Those who died were all younger than 10.