Thursday, Government Schools meals are still not trustable, as two children died and more than two dozen others fell seriously sick after they took milk in a government school as part of the midday meal programme, police said.
The two killed were identified as Zeeshan, 5 and Kirti, 3. The milk packets were allegedly supplied by the NGO Akshay Patra to the junior high school, primary school and ‘anganwadi in the Kanshi Ram colony in the Refinery area.
Police said ‘the victims had been promptly taken to the district hospital for treatment and inquiry begun to into allegations against principal Madhu and anganwadi workers Rita and Usha’.