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Delhi, 17th July, 2013
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo-motu cognizance of media reports that nine children lost their lives and nearly 50 fell seriously ill after consuming mid-day meal served in the Gandaman Primary School, Jajauli Panchayat, Mashrakh Block, District Saran, Bihar. Reportedly, the children, aged 03-12 years, were served rice, dal, potato and soya bean vegetable.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raised a serious issue of violation of rights to food of the deceased and issued notices to the Principal Secretary (Education), Government of Bihar and Superintendent of Police, Saran, calling for reports in the matter within four weeks. They have also been directed to inform whether any legal action has been taken in the matter. The officers have been asked to inform the Commission the compensation, if any, proposed to be granted to the next of kin of the deceased
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The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo-motu cognizance of media reports that nine children lost their lives and nearly 50 fell seriously ill after consuming mid-day meal served in the Gandaman Primary School, Jajauli Panchayat, Mashrakh Block, District Saran, Bihar. Reportedly, the children, aged 03-12 years, were served rice, dal, potato and soya bean vegetable.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raised a serious issue of violation of rights to food of the deceased and issued notices to the Principal Secretary (Education), Government of Bihar and Superintendent of Police, Saran, calling for reports in the matter within four weeks. They have also been directed to inform whether any legal action has been taken in the matter. The officers have been asked to inform the Commission the compensation, if any, proposed to be granted to the next of kin of the deceased
Caritas India Sending a Fact Finding Mission......
Its Sad but at least issue of MDM in terms of quality is picking up. Lets try and see how we can improve it.
ReplyDeletehmm, what the hell the govt is doing. Bihar Tragedy has been one of the popular issues now, let see now what gov have to say.
ReplyDeletePatna: A forensic report on whether free lunch served to school children in Bihar's Chhapra on Tuesday was poisoned, today said that traces of insecticides were found in the food sample collected from the school.
ReplyDelete"The report found Monocrotophos, an organophosphorous compound, in the samples of oil and the food sample that was collected. It was also observed from the data available in the FSL report that the peak area of the poisonous substance in the oil was more than five times in comparison to the commercial preparation used as a control. It is a matter of investigation that how it came into the food," said Ravinder Kumar, Additional Director General (ADG) of Police, Patna.
Monocrotophos is used as a pesticide for agricultural purposes. It is very toxic to human beings and other animals, he added. More than 20 children died after consuming the mid-day meal. A report by the Bihar government said yesterday that there was widespread mismanagement among all those people involved in implementing the mid-day meal scheme.
The tragedy has left the village of Gandaman broken and furious, and triggered a national debate over the world's largest school feeding programme.
The principal of the school where the children died remains missing. She is guilty of criminal negligence, says the report prepared by local administrative and police officials in Chhapra.
The Union government is planning to set up a special committee that will to review the implementation of the mid-day meal programme and monitor the quality of food and the standards of hygiene.
India's free mid-day meal scheme, the largest free food programme in the world catering to around 120 million school children across the country, was introduced as an incentive for children to go to school.
But since Bihar's tragic deaths on Tuesday, more and more shockers are emerging from other parts of the country, forcing governments to order strict checks on hygiene standards. On Thursday, 170 children fell ill after lunch at a school in Neyveli, in Tamilnadu's Cuddalore district.