Inquiry ordered into feeding mid-day meals at school on caste foundation in Uttarakhand’s Almora

Express News Service

DEHRADUN: The schooling division has come beneath query for placing up queues of kids on the premise of caste for mid-day meal in a authorities college in Uttarakhand’s Almora.

Despite all of the efforts of the federal government and the schooling division, the observe of untouchability in authorities colleges of the state has not been out of form even as we speak. 

Scheduled caste kids learning in a main college in Dhauladevi block of Almora had been served seperate meals and requested to sit down seperately from higher caste college students.

Harish Ram, a resident of village Thali in Dhauladevi growth block, reached the varsity the day gone by to find out about his baby. On reaching the varsity, the matter got here to his discover. When he objected to it and made the video, he was later known as to the police station. The villagers alleged, “The policemen posted at Thana Danya had threatened to lock Harish Ram in the lockup”.

These allegations have been made by one Mahipal Prashad, a consultant of dalit group on behalf of the scholars. After the video went viral in, the dad and mom submitted a memorandum to the SDM Gopal Singh Chauhan on Monday demanding strict motion.

SDM Chauhan informed The New Indian Express , “Bhaloni Tehsildar Barkha Jalal has been appointed as the investigating officer, who will submit her report after an on-the-spot investigation of the case by Wednesday evening”.

There have been allegations that kids from the Dalit group had been made to sit down individually from higher caste kids whereas consuming mid-day meal in a main college. After this entire matter got here to mild, there was a stir within the district administration and schooling division.

DEHRADUN: The schooling division has come beneath query for placing up queues of kids on the premise of caste for mid-day meal in a authorities college in Uttarakhand’s Almora.

Despite all of the efforts of the federal government and the schooling division, the observe of untouchability in authorities colleges of the state has not been out of form even as we speak. 

Scheduled caste kids learning in a main college in Dhauladevi block of Almora had been served seperate meals and requested to sit down seperately from higher caste college students.

Harish Ram, a resident of village Thali in Dhauladevi growth block, reached the varsity the day gone by to find out about his baby. On reaching the varsity, the matter got here to his discover. When he objected to it and made the video, he was later known as to the police station. The villagers alleged, “The policemen posted at Thana Danya had threatened to lock Harish Ram in the lockup”.

These allegations have been made by one Mahipal Prashad, a consultant of dalit group on behalf of the scholars. After the video went viral in, the dad and mom submitted a memorandum to the SDM Gopal Singh Chauhan on Monday demanding strict motion.

SDM Chauhan informed The New Indian Express , “Bhaloni Tehsildar Barkha Jalal has been appointed as the investigating officer, who will submit her report after an on-the-spot investigation of the case by Wednesday evening”.

There have been allegations that kids from the Dalit group had been made to sit down individually from higher caste kids whereas consuming mid-day meal in a main college. After this entire matter got here to mild, there was a stir within the district administration and schooling division.