Govt may rope in NSS volunteers to streamline mid-day meal scheme

After 23 children died of eating pesticide-laced lunch in a Bihar school on 16 July, the human resource development (HRD) ministry is scrambling to streamline its mid-day meal scheme. The ministry may involve volunteers of the National Service Scheme (NSS), run by the youth affairs ministry, to monitor the welfare programme aimed at ending classroom hunger and lowering dropout rates. Read More