Pune: Over 2 lakh children of migrant cane harvesters deprived of mid-day meals for months

 This season, state mills have seen an unusually large number of children accompanying their parents. Reports of leopard attacks earlier in the year in Beed district were among the reasons a higher number of cane harvesters brought their families along.

More than 2 lakh offspring of traveler stick reapers can't get to either their late morning dinners or a lot of proportion, as schools in Maharashtra are yet to resume totally after the pandemic constrained them to close down very nearly a year prior. Because of absence of clear approach to help them, these youngsters neglect to get their noontime dinners once they travel with their folks out of their home regions. 

Served to understudies in helped and government schools, the late morning supper is frequently, for some understudies from helpless families, the lone nutritious dinner of the day. A joint activity of the Union and state government, more than 1 crore younger students in 86,293 schools in the state profit by the late morning feast conspire. 

After schools the nation over had to close because of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown, a concerned Supreme Court had asked states and association regions to devise an arrangement to convey these suppers to the kids. The Maharashtra government had chosen to give out additional proportion, including rice and lentils, to understudies who were passing up early afternoon suppers.