In the backdrop of the Bihar mid-day meal tragedy in which 22 students died, the Supreme Court has sought report from the Central Government and all State Governments on steps taken by them to prevent such incidents and provide hygienic food to children.

A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam issued notices to the Governments and directed them to file status report.

The court passed the order on a PIL filed by advocate Sanjeeb Panigrahi seeking the court's intevention on the ground that there is no effective monitoring and evaluation of quality of food served to students under the scheme. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.