Results for: mid day meals

Hungry Elephants Raid Rural Jharkhand

 
/ July 25, 2012

 Jharkhand villages ill-equiped to deal with elephant herds.

No Electricity for India’s Coal Capital

 
/ July 12, 2012

Jharkhand’s villages are still awaiting power supply.

Children boycott food from Dalit mid-day cooks

 
/ June 29, 2012

The state had passed the rule that only Dalits would be appointed as mid-day meal cooks. This caused an uproar among ‘upper caste’ communities everywhere and their children began to boycott the food. The state responded by softening the rule, replacing the words ‘compulsory appointment’ with ‘preference will be given’...