It's a shame that poor children are served such trash in the name of midday meal - let alone being nutritious, this "food" claims their lives.
How ironic is this - this is the face of most of the Indian population and these kids DO pay school fee to attend school. Lets take an example, my mother teaches at a municipality school in Delhi and her students pay tuition. It's their money that has made my family live such a comfy life as we benefit directly from these kids' money in the form of my mother's salary. Now some will argue about how meagre the tuition is - let's just say "No students, no school; no school, no teachers and no teachers, no salary". This makes incumbent on my mother to teach her students well and she is among the very few who do their jobs in government schools.
I don't want to make this an oversentimental rant but my family and I are just next to primary in this food chain. We ALL pay taxes which should ideally go in the betterment of the society but we all know that only a fraction of it actually goes into the real work. Most money goes in the pockets of those who abuse their power and the result is no roads, no infrastructure, no potable water...NOTHING! We appoint these people and they are our servants but all they do is stash wads of our money and pass on their genes of corruption to their coming generations. This is a vicious circle that keeps going on.
This horrific incident is the direct result of people not doing their jobs. I mean how hard can it be? The government pays enough to live a decent life. Why do you want the money that's not even yours!
And then of course there is the tainted politics going on. The opposing party doesn't want the ruling party to stay in power - the easiest way is to bribe or in other words, just buy the conscience of people - it comes cheap, very cheap in India. There is over 1.2 billion, who cares about a handful, eh?
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