Hyderabad, March 4 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, March 3, directed that a designated officer be made responsible for the mid-day meal in each of the state's 26,000 government schools, with the officer required to have lunch alongside students. District collectors, he said, must also eat the mid-day meal at a government school at least once a week.

Chairing a meeting of all district collectors at the Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat in Hyderabad, Revanth Reddy warned that food poisoning incidents in schools would no longer be tolerated and directed officials to clear mid-day meal agency bills every month without delay, a longstanding grievance among the Self-Help Groups' (SHG) cooks who run the programm...