Jain inspects midday meals kitchens

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 22

Days after nine students were taken ill for having midday meals infested with rat, the Food and Safety Department led by Health Minister Satyendra Jain today inspected three midday meal kitchens in Burari and Jagat Pur areas of the national Capital.

The government is going to carry out such inspections more frequently with a target of collecting around “20,000 midday meal samples” from the kitchens every year in the city.

The government has also decided to rope in private laboratories to carry out the examination of the food samples.

Recently, the Food and Safety Commissioner ordered the officials concerned to visit kitchens to check hygiene levels.

In the Capital, there are 33 midday meal kitchens and during the entire year, around 2,500 samples are picked up for testing each year.

Nine students of a government school in Deoli fell ill on Thursday last week.

They had consumed midday meal which allegedly had a dead rat floating in it.