Food under the Midday Meal Scheme for the students of Government schools where kitchen cum store collapsed due to incessant rain, cloudbursts or landslides in the State will be prepared in neighbourhood school or Panchayat Ghar.
23 kitchen cum stores of Government schools in the State have collapsed while seven quintals of food grains and spices were destroyed in the disaster, said Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan state project additional director RK Kunwar on Thursday. All the district education officers have been directed to provide all the essential items including rice, cooking gas and others for preparing food under MDMS to those schools which were adversely affected in recent disaster in the State, he added.
SSA State project MDMS joint director in-charge Pravinder Kumar Bisht said that the reports submitted by district education officers revealed that a total of 23 kitchen cum stores including four government schools’ kitchen cum store in Rudraprayag district, three in Pithoragarh, seven in Tehri, seven in Chamoli and two in Pauri have collapsed in the disaster.
Bisht claimed that there is no shortage of funds in these schools as principals have already been provided fund for cooking costs through district education officers last month. School principals have been directed to inform regarding shortage of food grains to the district food and civil supply
officer through their education officer. The education department has received an estimation of Rs 32 lakh for the construction of 23 kitchen cum store from the districts which will be forwarded to the central Government soon, he added.