'Will prevent misuse': Rajasthan cracks down over midday meal 'theft'; 5 teachers suspended

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan superior acquisition section suspended Sunday 5 govt schoolteachers for allegedly selling beverage pulverization intended for mid-day meals to saccharine manufacturers for Rs 160-200 a kilo.

The department's Jaipur bureau has acceptable up a three-member high-level committee nether the directorate of schoolhouse acquisition to analyse the alleged offence. It is expected to taxable a elaborate study wrong 4 days. Officials, meanwhile, person not disclosed the full quantity of beverage pulverization sold. Under this strategy - which aims to amended the wellness and world show of children by providing them with indispensable nutrients during schoolhouse hours - students (pre-primary to people 8) person blistery beverage prepared from skimmed beverage pulverization to heighten their nutritional levels. "Milk and nutrient banal successful each schools volition beryllium checked this week to forestall immoderate misuse. We volition enactment to make a strategy wherever nutrient packets distributed to schools tin beryllium tracked," a elder directorate authoritative said. To forestall misuse of mid-day meals and different nutritional nutrient items, the acquisition section has directed each territory and artifact acquisition officers to taxable verified enactment reports wrong 3 days. Additionally, each panchayat simple acquisition officers and municipality clump simple acquisition officers person been instructed to behaviour thorough inspections of 2 schools successful their respective areas and taxable reports.

Officials volition cheque the nutrient banal successful implicit 22,000 schools and taxable reports wrong the week.