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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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
