Bangladesh, July 10 -- Complaints have surfaced over the quality of bread, bananas and eggs served under the government's school feeding programme in Gopalganj's Kotalipara and Kashiani Upazilas.

Under the programme, students at government primary schools are given milk, eggs, bananas, buns and biscuits.

Teachers and students say the buns often arrive hard and tasteless, the boiled eggs come cracked or broken, and the bananas are either too raw or overripe, with everything undersized.

Ashraful Islam, headteacher of South Hiron Government Primary School in Kotalipara, said the bread supplied to schools comes from bakeries in Kotalipara, Bhola, Barishal and Gopalganj on different days, but the bread from outside Kotalipara arrives "smal...