Corruption in students' midday meal money

Dec-26th-2011
ITAHARI: The chairmen of the school management committees and headmasters of the primary schools in Sunsari district have been charged of misusing the budget provided by the District Education Office (DEO) for the students' daytime meal.

The office has been doling out nearly Rs 34 million budget to 14,000 plus students in 58 different schools to feed nutritious food to the kids during school hour.

However, it has been learnt that the students were provided with low-priced fast-food.

Planning officer in the DEO, Durga Khatiwada said the budget was allocated by counting the head of the students and each student gets Rs. 12 everyday for tiffin.

Khatiwada said millions of rupees could have been misused as the students were not only provided with the poor quality meal but also the schools were seeking extra money from the DEO by providing fake details of the students.

Lack of monitoring in the schools is to blame for such anomalies.

RSS.