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Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 06:48 am:

 

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Isckon to feed MCD students

 

TIMES OF INDIA NEWS NETWORK [FRIDAY, JULY 04, 2003 12:36:46 AM]

 

NEW DELHI: The new mid-day meal scheme for providing cooked meals to

students in MCD schools was kicked off on Thursday with the International

Society for Krishna Consciousness (Isckon) distributing meals at the MCD

school, Sarai Julena.

 

A simple meal of dal-chawal and halwa was provided to the 346 students of

Sari Julena school. The initial programme will cover five schools benefiting

2,483 students in the schools situated at Sarai Julena, Masih Garhi, Bharat

Nagar and Modi Mills. The food distribution was supervised by MCD

commissioner Rakesh Mehta and Isckon temple president Maha Mantra Das.

 

Mehta said that through the new programme more students would be attracted

to MCD schools. This will also check drop-out rates and provide

supplementary nutrition to poor children. Although Isckon is yet to sign a

formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the MCD, they will be meeting

with Mehta on Monday to work out the details.

 

Isckon has also distributed steel plates and spoons in the schools at its

own expense. Education committee chairman Farhad Suri also appealed to other

religious and charitable institutions to come forward for the cause. The MCD

has 1,800 schools under its wing with over 900,000 students on its roll.