CM Suvendu Adhikari
Kolkata: Bengal govt will bring in another one lakh students under the midday meal (PM POSHAN) scheme from Oct 1 to eventually extend this balanced meal programme to every student in all govt and govt-aided schools across the state, CM Suvendu Adhikari posted on Thursday. “In the first phase of the project, which began on Aug 1, the responsibility of delivering nutritious, freshly cooked meals to approximately 30,000 students via a centralised modern kitchen was entrusted to the organisation. He added that building on the initial success, state govt further expanded the service to include an additional 15,000 students, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 45,000. The state school education department has revoked the approval granted to The Akshaya Patra Foundation to serve midday meals across state-run schools in four districts: North 24 Parganas, Howrah, East Midnapore and Purulia. State govt’s Sept 11 order did not specify the reasons for cancelling Akshaya Patra’s approval.
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