The officials in Patna, Bihar said on Thursday, thousands of school children were declining to accept free meals in poverty-stricken eastern India, apprehensive of being poisoned, subsequent to 22 children death from eating lunch unmistakable contaminated accompanied by insecticide.

The incident into prominence was the death of children, aged four to 12, subsequent to eating lentils, vegetables and rice cooked at a village school in the state of Bihar on Tuesday, intensifying violent disapproval as well as an investigation into the grounds. Near about 30 children remain sick in hospitals in the state capital Patna and the city of Chhapra following behind eating the food, which initial tests showed may have been contaminated with insecticide.

Furthermore to say, a senior state government official mentioned that the children elsewhere in the state known to have dumped their meals in bins or expressed refusal to even touch them, irrespective of urge from school officials that the tragedy would not occur again. In fact the Director of the midday meal scheme in Bihar Lakshmanan, who uses only one name, told AFP  that the parents have cautioned their children to not even touch the meal served in the school. Undetermined number of the students dumped the lunch in school dustbins at the same time they are trying to persuade everyone that the tragedy will not occur once more.

The worst part here is that now the higher authority is coming with a statement that this kind of tragedy will not repeat once again. They mean to express sorry for whatever had happened other way around they try to justify that insecticide got mix up with the meal. That's in fact more pathetic that in the name sake they give free meals to poverty stricken children and take least interest to see whether the meal they serve is actuality eatable.

It's really mournful to see so many children experiencing death due to such serviceability lacking in practice.
 

(AW:Samrat Biswas)