Kolkata: West Bengal government has directed district administrations to provide additional eggs to school students under the mid-day meal scheme, aiming to enhance nutritional support for children, an official said Thursday.
The move ahead of the assembly elections has triggered a war of words between the Opposition BJP and the ruling Trinamool. Senior BJP leader Rahul Sinha wondered why the need for “additional nutritional support to the children was not addressed earlier and why only during elections”.
Education minister Bratya Basu said there had been provisions to allocate one additional egg and seasonal fruit for each child once in a year, and it is not new.
