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.
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.