It was a fraction of minutes, which otherwise would have been a Bihar tragedy.Hundreds of children have narrowly escaped from the clutch of death on Saturday when a timely inspection by a teacher saved the school children from a Mid Day meal provided by a local NGO here.
The incident took place at a government primary school of Bhoi Mohalla that the cook of the school saw many death insects inside the cooked food, which was just delivered by a representative of a local NGO called Jai Maa Annapurna Devi Self Help Group pf Pigdamber village.
The teacher again informed the SDM Mhow Shyamendra Jaiswal. later he along with Tehsildar Nidhi Verma reached at the site and prepared Panchnama of the food. The teachers highlighted that in most of the time this self help group provided them the food with soil particles as many potatoes were cooked without washing and peeling.
The pulses provided were less than the prescribed quantity by the Government with high water level. The chapattis were prepared with machines and the students’ didn’t eat.
locals further alleged that the food was supplied by Jai Maa Annapurna Devi self help group of village Pigdamber.
Any self help group can provide food to maximum two schools but by manipulating the records this self help group members have kept different names and providing food to more than 17 schools of the Mhow Tehsil.
locals alleged that CEO Janpad Mhow Narendra Bhavsare run this self help group. But even after knowing all this facts and poor quality of food he never took action and did never inspects the self help groups of Mhow Tehsil. Most of the time he was not available in the office and at his government residence Mhow. When people went to complain about this mismanagement he came from Indore.
SDM Mhow Shyamedra Jaiswal told The Pioneer that he had issued notice to the CEO Janpad Mhow Narendra Bhavsare and BRC Sanjay Nelson.