Bihar Mid-day Meal Tragedy

• Shortage of six lakh teachers in the country: Pallam Raju

  There is a shortage of six lakh teachers in the country and initiatives are being taken to fill the gap as the focus is to provide quality education.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Chargesheet filed against principal

  A chargesheet was filed today against the school principal of a Bihar school for the death of 23 children who ate contaminated mid-day meal, police said.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Accused surrenders in court, in remand for 14 days

  Arjun Rai, an accused in the mid-day meal tragedy case that claimed lives of 23 children in Bihar's Saran district two months ago, surrendered today in a local court.

• 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.

• Delivery of mid-day meal scheme needs to be improved: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme needed to be improved to ensure that the tragedy in Bihar in which 23 schoolchildren died was not repeated "anywhere in the country".

• A month after Bihar mid-day meal tragedy, village still under trauma, grief

  A month after 23 children in a small Bihar village were literally served death on their plates, the trauma still lingers. The Chhapra mid-day meal tragedy became a flashpoint of an intense debate on the state of school mid-day meals, a scheme run across the country.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: School principal's jail custody extended by 14 days

  The principal of the government school at Chhapra in Bihar where 23 students had died after eating poisonous mid-day meal was today remanded in jail custody for 14 more days.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: 22 survivors return home after 3 weeks in hospital

  22 children, who survived the pesticide-laced mid-day meal at their school in Bihar's Chhapra district three weeks ago, were discharged today from a Patna hospital. They returned to their their grateful parents but refused to return to their old school at the Gandaman village.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: 22 children discharged from hospital after three weeks

  Twenty-two children who survived after consuming contaminated mid-day meal in Bihar's Saran district three weeks ago were discharged from hospital in Patna today.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: School principal undergoes polygraph test

  The principal of the Chhapra school, where 23 children died after eating poisonous mid-day meal a fortnight ago, was today subjected to polygraph test to cross-check the statements made by her after arrest.

• Bihar Assembly adjourned after BJP, RJD protest over Chhapra mid-day meal deaths

  On Friday too, when the week-long session of the Assembly began, the opposition members had created a ruckus over the death of 23 children not finding mention in the obituary reference by Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary.

• Bihar's schools fail poor children, everyday

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

• Millions of Bihar school children go without mid-day meal

  A week after the mid-day meal tragedy in which 23 children lost their lives in Bihar, nearly 3,00,000 teachers across the state began their boycott of the scheme today. As a result, millions of school children were not served their mid-day meal in schools.

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  Bihar mid-day meal tragedy does not appear to be accident, says Nitish Kumar

  More than a week after 23 children died from a poisoned free lunch at their school in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has issued his first public comments on the tragedy.c

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: school principal surrenders, arrested

  The school principal of Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School where 23 children had died after eating mid-day meal, has been surrendered, police said today. Meena Devi had been missing since the tragedy took place.