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Pondy coop. milk board dissolved

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry Sept. 6. The Board of Management of Pondicherry Cooperative Milk Producers Union, has been dissolved with immediate effect.

The Registrar of Cooperative Societies, G. Ranganathan, said the dissolution of the board had been done in accordance with the Pondicherry Cooperatives Society Act. A Special Officer, Rajmohan, had been appointed to look after the affairs of the undertaking and also to hold elections to revive the board and restore its ``democratic character.''

Ponlait came under fire in the wake of a large number of school children developing nausea on Thursday after consuming milk supplied to them under the Rajiv Gandhi free breakfast scheme. The milk sachets distributed to school children in some institutions did not carry the details such as the packaging date and producers' name. A complaint has also been filed with the police by a school head and a case has been registered on the organisations entrusted with the distribution of milk and bread.

Meanwhile, the Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan, in a communication last evening, said the complaints of nausea and giddiness among school children, necessitating hospitalisation, were apparently caused by allergy.

The Education department, which was implementing the scheme, was now seeking expert opinion whether the flavour, used in milk, could be changed so as to avoid allergy. The scheme, which had been suspended, would be reviewed.

From day one of its implementation on August 14, bread and milk had been subjected to rigorous testing. The Government now was keen on further improving quality and only after comprehensive testing would bread and milk be supplied to the children.

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