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Nutritious food items infested with worms, allegedly set on fire

H.D. Kote: About four to five sacks of wheat, supplied by the Government to the Government Higher Primary School at Antharasanthe in the taluk to provide food to the students, which were infested with worms as it was not used for a long time, was allegedly set on fire behind the school by the cooking staff and the head of the school. The incident has come to light lately.
There are over 200 poor students studying from 1st Standard to 7th Standard in the school and the State Government spends thousands of rupees to supply food articles to provide Midday Meals to the students.
But due to the negligent attitude of those in-charge of the Midday Meals and cooks, the food articles were not used sufficiently, leading to food articles including sacks of wheat getting spoiled and infested with worms.
As worms had infested sacks containing wheat, about four to five sacks of wheat was set on fire behind the school last week, the video of which had gone viral on social media following which the Education Department officials visited the spot, inspected the burnt sacks of wheat, issued a warning to those involved in it and went away.
Meanwhile, A. Raju, In-charge Assistant Director of Akshara Dasoha, who came to know about wheat sacks being burnt, visited the School, conducted an inspection and interrogated the Head Master, who casually said, “I do not know anything about it. It is the cooks who have done it. If I have done wrong, I will get four to five sacks of wheat from my money.”