Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an inquiry into the mid-day meal given to students in a school in Bhopal after teachers found a dead frog in the food.
"Administrative Officer Mayank Verma has been asked to conduct a probe into the matter,” Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Arvind Dubey said.
"Soon after receiving a complaint in this regard, BMC and State School Education Department officials rushed to the school, seized the frog and made a panchnama," Dubey said.
However, the kitchen manager of the NGO that supplies the food, Dayal Nayar, said that there was no mistake on their behalf. "How could this be possible when the temperature of the container in which the food was made was 180 degree Celcius," Nayar said.
"The frog cannot fall in the food when it is being prepared. Maybe it fell into the food during transportation or this could be an act of mischief," he said.
The BMC took action as teachers found a dead frog when students in the Sarojini Naidu Girls School in Bhopal’s Shivaji Nagar locality were being served sweet upama.
This is the second such incident in the city within a year. Earlier a dead rat was found in the mid-day meal served under the scheme in the city.
The mid-day meal was prepared by an NGO, Nandi Foundation, which supplies food for about 58,000 students of the government-run schools of the city since July 2006.
At present, the NGO supplies mid-day meals in 535 primary and middle schools besides madarsas in Bhopal.
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