'Stop mid-day meals'
Updated On: 26 November, 2009 07:12 AM IST | Surender Sharma and Prawesh Lama
Agitated parents say they would prefer giving tiffin to their children to contaminated school food
Agitated parents say they would prefer giving tiffin to their children to contaminated school food
It was started of as a path breaking exercise by the government to increase school enrollment and attendance, to address malnutrition and social empowerment through provision of employment to women.
Poisonous treat: Father of a girl who was taken ill after consuming contaminated food at an east Delhi school. The school restricted entry after agitated parents protested against the Delhi government. More than 90 students were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital.u00a0
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