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Kids Taken ill after Mid-Day Meal

This is the first time that such an incident has taken place in a State Government-run school.The mid-day meal scheme is on in 1,162 such schools. Nearly 80 students of a government-run school were taken ill after consuming the mid-day meal at Trilokpuri in the trans-Yamuna area on Wednesday. The contractor has been blacklisted. According to the police, the incident took place around noon when the students of Sharda Sen Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya started vomiting and complained of headache and nausea after consuming the mid-day meal. They were taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where ten of them were kept under observation while the rest were discharged. The police have registered a case after getting the medico-legal certificates of the students. The police later raided the kitchen of the NGO Rao Raghuvir Seva Samiti that had prepared the meal in Khichdipur and found that the food contained a dead lizard. "We have registered a case of negligence against the NGO and its o...