20 lakh children go hungry in Uttar Pradesh

September 05, 2013 11:32

Uttar Pradesh, India's bread basket state, has no money to provide mid-day meals to more than 2 million schoolchildren. Teetering on the edge of a financial meltdown, the Punjab government has now ended its mid-day meal scheme for 21 lakh schoolchildren by the simple expedient of turning off the tap. Read more

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