Topics Uttar Pradesh | Mid-day Meal | Midday meal scheme

Nitin Kumar  |  Agra  Last Updated at August 26, 2022 16:59 IST

“We never forget to put food in students' plates but the government never remembers to do the same for us,” says Kiran Devi as she picks up a bowl of potato-soya curry to feed the students sitting under a banyan tree in Barara’s Primary School-1, Agra. Kiran Devi, 55, is a cook-cum-helper (CCH) under the mid-day meal scheme (now, Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman).

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First Published: Fri, August 26 2022. 16:56 IST

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