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11 DK schools discontinue eggs in midday meals after parent feedback
Mangaluru: The Akshara Dasoha office in Dakshina Kannada has allowed the discontinuation of serving eggs in approximately 11 schools following parents' disapproval over including eggs in their children's midday meals.
These educational institutions, located within temples, Jain Basadis, or run by religious organisations, earlier communicated their opposition to serving eggs during midday meals. Initially, when officials from Akshara Dasoha received these requests, they declined to make immediate changes, indicating that such decisions would require parental feedback. Subsequently, parents submitted written documentation specifying their preference for their children to receive bananas instead of eggs during meals.
Jnanesh MP, executive officer of Akshara Dasoha in DK, said that initially, the issue came up after the Azim Premji Foundation for Development, which, in collaboration with the state govt, implemented a six-eggs-per-week programme. During the inspection, they found that some schools they visited were not serving eggs even though it was mandatory. They were serving only chikki and bananas.
"Following this, schools wrote to us to exempt them from serving eggs.
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However, we denied their request, communicating that it was not possible. A letter was written in this regard to the state govt, which denied that schools could stop it," he said.
The govt asked to seek parents' opinion on the same and come to a conclusion. A consent form was distributed to each parent from these schools, who responded by saying no to eggs during the midday meal. Based on their feedback, these 11 schools have now stopped serving eggs and serve only bananas during midday meals, explained Jnanesh.
Chikki has been removed from the midday meal menu across the state due to its adverse health effects.
Meanwhile, the midday meals have started across all the schools in the district without any glitches. Jnanesh said that the total number of beneficiaries of this academic year will be known by the end of June, as admissions are still in progress. Also, a lot of migrant children who went to their hometowns are yet to return to classrooms.
