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Poor quality foodgrains being supplied for meal scheme, says ZP member

Staff Correspondent

UNHEALTHY: Ramappa, chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Education, is showing spoiled red gram supplied to schools under the Akshara Dasoha scheme, at a KDP meeting in Davangere on Wednesday.

DAVANGERE: Ramappa, chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Education, has alleged that sub-standard foodgrains were being supplied to schools under the Akshara Dasoha Scheme. As a result, students were being forced to consume poor quality food in their schools. He expressed the fear that students may fall ill after the continuous consumption of such food and urged the zilla panchayat to initiate steps before a major tragedy takes place in the district.

At the KDP meeting here on Wednesday, Dr. Ramappa, who showed sachets of red gram, black gram and Bengal gram, said that they were samples of ingredients being used in many schools in the district. He said that spoiled and rotten foodgrains were supplied to schools and noted that it was not fit for human consumption. He asked whether the implementing officers of the scheme and others concerned would allow agencies to supply such grain to schools if their children were to study in them. President of the zilla panchayat H.B. Manjanna asked the scheme’s implementing officer, Shivanagowda Patil, if he did not examine the foodgrains supplied to schools by the agencies assigned. Mr. Shivanagowda Patil said that he supervised and constantly monitored the supply of foodgrains and pleaded ignorance how such ingredients had come to be supplied.

Mr. Manjanna asked Mr. Patil to identify the agency that had supplied the ingredients so that the panchayat could blacklist it and fix another agency. Dr. Ramappa said that fresh tenders should be called once in two months for procuring foodgrains for schools but the implementing officers were following the guidelines.

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