"mid-day-meals"

Mid-day meal workers in Karimnagar are facing financial hardship due to delay in salary payments by the state government. While the Centre has cleared its share, the state’s contribution and pending egg bills remain unpaid for several months

The Telangana State government has issued an order to increase the material costs for mid-day meals in government and local body schools, following a report highlighting challenges in providing quality food due to outdated costs. The new costs, effective from November 17, raise the amounts allocated per primary and upper primary student.

Speaking to the media on the occasion, Saidulu said teachers, headmasters were forced to spend more time on submitting reports to higher officials which was wasting valuable time, meant to be used for teaching students.

BRS leader KT Rama Rao accused the Congress government of prioritising luxury over students’ welfare by neglecting Mid-Day Meals in schools. He cited extravagant spending on official events and questioned the Chief Minister’s silence on deaths in Gurukul institutions.

He criticised the Congress government for its neglect of the education sector in just 20 months and its inability to ensure even mid-day meals to students as per the menu

As per the mid-day meal scheme social audit for 2024, only 27.2 percent of the schools have access to RO water, while 43.8 percent use tap water.

As per the mid-day meals social audit for 2024, only one in four schools have switched to LPG cylinders.

The mid-day meals social audit for 2024 commissioned by the School Education department revealed that 22.5 percent of urban students do not take mid-day meals. Similarly, 21.2 percent of students do not have meals from schools where the centralised agency supplies food.

All primary, upper primary and high schools under all managements i.e., government, government aided and private will function from 8 am to 12.30 pm

Parents question the school management about the worms in the undercooked meals, and raise concerns over frequent illnesses among children

BRS working president KTR asked if Revanth Reddy was more focused on swindling funds in the name of Musi River Development project and sending funds to please his Delhi bosses, or feeding poor children who were future of the nation

The government had introduced a plan to serve eggs to students in government schools on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to ensure they receive nutritious meals. However, suppliers have halted egg deliveries for the past three weeks due to a rise in egg prices. While the government provides Rs 5 per egg, the market price has increased to Rs 7 each.

Congress MLAs and elected public representatives have inadvertently exposed their own government's shortcomings with inspections in schools, where they found that the charges by the BRS that poor quality food being served to students was in fact, true.

The students were served tomato rice and egg for lunch. However soon after consuming the food, the students complained about stomach ache and nausea

Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari issued orders on Thursday to establish a committee comprising the Headmaster, Principal, or Warden, along with two other staff members from the institution. The committee is tasked with inspecting the storeroom and kitchen before each meal is prepared, ensuring the quality of provisions and maintaining hygiene in the kitchen.

After Wednesday's incident, many students stayed away from school. With the previous agency's contract terminated, a new agency was brought in to prepare food. However, when the meal was served, students discovered worms in the rice. Teachers were immediately alerted and discarded the contaminated rice. Fresh rice was quickly arranged, and bananas were distributed to the students as a stopgap. By 3:45 PM, lunch was finally served.

MEO Muralidhar Reddy and Mess Incharge M Bap Reddy have been placed under suspension by the School Education Director EV Narasimha Reddy

School Education department, in collaboration with Sri Satya Sai Annapoorna Trust, decided to provide Ragi java in all government and local body schools thrice a week for the academic year 2024-25

The delegation from Poultry India sought support from the Chief Minister to the reeling poultry industry by increasing the level of inclusion of eggs in mid-day meals from three to five per week as was being done in neighbouring States.

Mohd Shujath Hussain contested that the rule confining the requirement only to Telugu and translation from English Language to Telugu Language and vice versa in written examination as arbitrary.