Two children were reported to have died and five others taken ill after consuming contaminated sweetened milk at an Anganwadi Centre located at Ketalnar village in insurgency-infested Bijapur district of Bastar in Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
Chief Minister Raman Singh after hearing about the incident immediately convened a meeting in Raipur which was attended by Additional Chief Secretary N Baijendra Kumar and Commissioner , Tribal Development and Director, Public Relations Rajesh Sukumar Toppo besides other senior officials and ordered a high-level probe into the incident , officials informed.
The Chief Minister directed officials that the matter should be thoroughly probed and the guilty should be brought to book. He also directed officials to ensure good quality of milk being served in Anganwadis to children.
This apart, Singh also took note of 10 children falling ill after consuming milk at an Anganwadi centre at Barra village of Navagarh development block in Janjgir-Champa district.
The CM was informed in the meeting that the Janjgir-Champa district administration got an inquiry conducted immediately after the incident in which it was found that five children had fallen ill out of 10 who were admitted in the Primary Health Centre at Navagarh and were kept under medical supervision overnight and discharged the next day. The milk samples have been despatched to Raipur for conducting tests in a government laboratory.