Sri Ram, Sreedevi Schools want Mid-day meals: Education Department approves
Bantwal: The Kalladka school’s midday meal issue has now taken a new turn. The Sri Ram School of Kalladka and Punacha’s Shreedevi School have requested the government to provide the midday meal scheme for the present academic year, and the Department of Education has approved it.
Until the last academic year, the Kollur temple funded midday meals to Kalladka and Punacha schools.
However, a letter was written to Siddaramaiah government objecting how the temple, which comes under Muzrai Department, can provide financial assistance for midday meal to only two schools. Following which, the funds given for midday meal by the Kollur temple to both the schools were stopped.
Cancellation of school adoption by the Kollur Temple had led to several protests, with the BJP and Congress locking horns over the issue. While students had held protests in Bantwal, BJP leader and MP Shobha Karandlaje had launched a ‘mane mane bhikshatane’ protest against the government. Shobha had requested women to donate a handful of rice so that children studying in the two schools can have their midday meal. Consequently, the ZP officer had instructed the institution to submit a request to provide midday meal under Akshara Dasoha scheme as Shreeram Vidyakendra is eligible to get it.
However, the management had said that they do not need any aid from the government. “we will provide the midday meal with the help of parents, guardians, and many education lovers,” they had said. But now, the management of schools in Kalladka and Punacha had submitted a request letter seeking inclusion of their schools under the Akshara Dasoha scheme. The request has been approved.
Akshara Dasoha in-charge for Bantwal, Rajalakshmi, said the schools in Kalladka and Punacha had submitted requests to be included in the scheme. “We have started supplying rice to the schools, and other items will also be supplied soon,” she added.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
