Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: Citizen’s Forum has noticed that the supply of mid day meals in Jammu schools is not upto the nutritional standings of school children.
RK Chadha, President of the forum said that as per the National Food Security Act 2013, better food facilities be provided to the poor children for which relevant decision be taken up by the concerned State Governments. As such Punjab Government has decided to substitute milk,bananas and eggs in the mid-day meals of school children by approving the menu entailing a total cost of Rs 118.3 crores, he added.
He said that in this J&K State already budget for mid-day meals is crossing Rs 100 crores, where as the population of the State is less than Punjab, still the food is not up to the nutritional standards for the poor school children.
“Why not open high standard community kitchens within a distance of 10 kilometers of all schools and provide packed nutritional food as per practice started by Indian Railways?”, Chadha questioned.
Chadha has appointed Deepak Handa, the young educationist as Senior Executive Member of the Forum, who has recently resigned as State Secretary PDP and joined Citizen’s Forum to work for the betterment of school children of the State.
Other members signatory to the statement were ADGP S Wazir, Dr Ravinder Madan, Dr Arun Gupta (MIER), RK Handa, Arun Sharma, SK Gupta, Deepak Handa, Harbans Wani, Jit Pal Saini, Ashok Parihar, Anil Sethi, Anuj Dewan Raina, Aditya Sharma, Ashok Misra, MS Kapoor, Veena Handa, Sarita Oswal, Samir Bhasin and Sunny Dua.
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