In Bihar, a plate of woe

Instances ofcontaminated food served to children under the government-mandated midday meal in Bihar no longer make the media’s big-font news. Their regularity numbs the reader into indifference.

On May 7, up to 150 students of a government middle school in Bihar’s Baluaha village, in Saharsa district, fell sick and were hospitalised. The children had allegedly spotted a dead baby snake in their watery dal. They were treated at a government hospital and the local Primary Health Centre.