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Breakfast scheme not implemented properly: PMK

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry Sept. 6. The PMK`s Pondicherry Organising Secretary, N. G. Panneerselvam has alleged in a statement that the setback in the health caused to children who took the milk and bread under the breakfast scheme on Thursday in schools was sheerely because of `inefficient operation of the scheme' and also the attitude to gain publicity without regard to the hygienic aspect of the programme.

Mr. Panneerselvam said that it was unfortunate that the children should have taken ill on the occasion of celebration of Teacher`s Day in the Union Territory. He said that the indifferent and irresponsible manner in which the breakfast scheme was being implemented in the Union Territory was chiefly responsible for the incident of nausea and giddiness among children. Necessary infrastructural facilities had not been established by the administration.There should be involvement of experts in nutrition and child care in the operation of the scheme.The milk and bread should have been subjected to rigorous checking at every stage of preparation of the product as it was meant for young and innocent children.

He questioned the urgency and necessity for the management of the PONLAIT (a cooperative Milk Producers Union) assigned with the responsibility of supplying the milk for the scheme to come out with an advertisement for its clarification and for its claim on the fitness of its milk, within hours of children being admitted to the hospital for treatment.

The PMK leader said that it was not correct to say that only children of one school in Muthialpet had fallen ill after taking the milk and bread. Children from various schools and from distant villages were rushed to the hospitals including the JIPMER and Primary Health Centres for first aid.

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