Mid-day Meal

Rice and potato distribution which was scheduled on 23 & 24 March has been preponed to Sunday in WB, the day of Janta Curfew

Principal and midday meal in-charge of Rajasthan school suspended after 18 students fell ill after taking midday meal

The police FIR states that village Pradhan's representative Rajkumar Pal was aware of the unavailability of vegetables and instead of supplying them, he called a journalist and planned to shoot a video, insisting that the children are served only salt and roti.

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee discovered that children were being fed only rice and salt in mid-day meals during her surprise visit to the school on Monday.

Reacting to WB govt decision to build dining halls having 70%+ minority students, WB BJP says TMC is Total Muslim Congress

Mamata Banerjee has been unabashed about her appeasement politics.

Narendra Modi, through his actions on foreign funded NGOs and endorsement of Akshaya Patra, has made it clear that clipping the wings of 'civil society' is among its long list of priorities.

The Akshaya Patra has come under criticism recently for not including onion and garlic in its mid-day meals for school children.

The Congress party and a few activists had opposed this move

The NGO had been delivering mid-day meals since Congress regimes.