Within a week of the Karnataka government beginning to provide eggs to school children in midday meals, Tejaswini Ananthkumar, chairperson of Adamya Chetana, a voluntary organization which supplies midday meals to many schools, has argued against providing eggs.
“Why has our Karnataka government decided to give eggs in midday meal? These are not the only source of nutrition. It is also exclusionary to many students who are vegetarians. Our policies are to be designed such that every student has equal opportunity,” she tweeted on Monday.
The State government decided to provide eggs/groundnut chikki/bananas in mid-day meals on July 19 and started providing them from July last week. However, the scheme is yet to take off in schools that are served meals by Adamya Chetana and Akshaya Patra of ISKCON, two major providers of noon meals to schoolchildren across the State.
