The Bihar Government has dismissed Block Resource Person Satyendra Kumar who was responsible for monitoring mid-day meal programme being run at the Government Primary School at Dharmasati Dandaman village in Mashrakh area of Saran district.
In all, 23 children in the age group of six to 10 lost their lives after consuming poisonous mid-day meal at the school last Tuesday.
State Principal Secretary (Education Department) Amarjeet Sinha said that Kumar was terminated from his contract service on the basis of a joint report submitted by Saran’s Divisional Commissioner and Deputy Inspector General of Police a few days back. Both senior officers had found him guilty of not properly monitoring mid-day meal scheme in his area.
Kumar had not submitted reports to the district in-charge of the mid-day meal in Saran district for the last three months and he also did not visit schools regularly. He was supposed to send report to the district in-charge of the mid-day meal programme in Saran district on the daily basis.
Meanwhile, police raided the house of headmistress of the school, Meena Kumari on Sunday and seized five empty packets of pesticide. Her husband Arjun Rai is a farmer and cultivates sugarcane crops in his fields, sources added.