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Students refuse food cooked by Dalits, principal suspended
2010-07-09 15:50:00
The principal of a government-run school in Uttar Pradesh's Ramabai
Nagar district was suspended for inaction and negligence after
students refused to eat the midday meal prepared by two Dalit cooks,
officials said Friday.
A probe has also been initiated against Jasapur Primary School
principal Maan Singh and district education officials, including
senior official Anil Rawat, as they knew that several upper-caste
students of the school were not eating the meal prepared by the Dalit
women.
They neither took any step to solve the case nor informed other senior
officials about it.
'It's a serious matter. They should have acted timely. Preliminary
enquiry indicates that the principal, and education officials tried to
cover up the matter,' Sanjay Kumar, official in-charge of primary
education, told reporters in Ramabai Nagar.
'We have suspended the principal and will take strict action against
other officials also,' he said.
'During an inspection Thursday, it came to the fore that students
belonging to upper castes were not eating the midday meal that was
prepared by two Dalit women, who were appointed as cooks recently at
the school,' he added.
The Jasapur primary school is in Sandalpur block, some 300 km from Lucknow.
About 150,000 schools are covered under the midday meal scheme in
Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
The National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education,
also known as Mid-Day Meal Programme, was launched as a
centrally-sponsored scheme on Aug 15, 1995.
Its objective is to boost universalisation of primary education and
improve the nutritional status of the food being given to the
children, the officials added.
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