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Two teachers suspended over poor mid-day meal in UP’s Hardoi
Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district suspended headmaster Rajesh Kumar and assistant teacher Vinod Kumar on Tuesday after an inquiry confirmed complaints about poor mid-day meal quality at Primary School Kotra. The action followed…
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Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district suspended headmaster Rajesh Kumar and assistant teacher Vinod Kumar on Tuesday after an inquiry confirmed complaints about poor mid-day meal quality at Primary School Kotra. The action followed a viral video showing the food served to students.
The inquiry found irregularities in meal arrangements, though it emerged that Vinod Kumar had recorded the video amid a prior dispute with the headmaster. Basic Shiksha Adhikari Prabhat Mishra ordered the suspensions. Notices were also issued to the school cooks, and the block education officer and district coordinator for the mid-day meal programme have been asked to explain lapses in inspection and monitoring.
The Indian Opinion
Another viral video, another suspension, but the rot in the mid-day meal scheme goes deeper than one bad clip. The fact that the teacher who filmed the video had a personal grudge does not change the inquiry's finding that the food was genuinely poor. Accountability must stick: if inspections were lax, punish the inspectors, not just the teachers at the bottom. The real test is whether the department will release the complete inspection records for every school in Tadiyawan block within a month.
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