At least eight students and a teacher from a UP school complained of uneasiness and had to be taken to a hospital after a dead rat was found in the midday meal in a UP school on Tuesday.
Additional District Magistrate Amit Kumar Singh said that the small rodent was scooped out of a container of yellow urad daal at the Janata Inter-College – a government-aided institute - in Mustafabad Panchenda village. Luckily, no one had eaten till then.
The meal, meant for students of Class VI, VII and VIII, was supplied by NGO Janklyan Samiti of Hapur. An FIR has been lodged against the organisation.
An inquiry has been ordered and strict action will be taken against those found guilty of negligence, Singh said.
The students and the teacher complained of vomiting after they saw the rat in the daal.
Recently, the UP government has been in the news for all the wrong reasons thanks to its midday meal scheme.
Last week, a video showed that a litre of milk was allegedly diluted with a bucket of water so that 81 children could be served during their midday meal at a government school in Sonbhadra district, following which a teacher was suspended.
Two months ago, a similar video emerged from Siyur Primary School in Mirzapur district showing a woman distributing rotis and another giving salt to the children.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had taken note of the Mirzapur incident and sent a notice to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary following which two teachers were suspended. The commission had also sought a detailed report about the status of the midday meal scheme across the state within four weeks. PTI
The rat was scooped out from the bottom of a daal container
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