Submit report of Vigilance probe into MDM scheme in 30 days – NSF

Dimapur, Aug. 21 (EMN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has asked the Nagaland Vigilance Commission to expedite the probe into alleged irregularities/mismanagement of the Mid Day Meal Scheme in the state.

In a letter to the commissioner of the state’s Vigilance & Anti-Corruption unit, the organisation demanded that the report into the investigation be produced within 30 days.

“The Naga Students’ Federation and its federating units in the process of undertaking its education tour, 2018 visited various government schools and it is being found that Mid Day Meal Scheme was not provided to the students and the scheme had miserably failed in its implementation and deprived the students of their rights and benefits.

“For the academic year 2018 most of the schools were not provided mid-day meal and many schools were supplied with only dal (dried, split pulses) and cooking cost without supply of any other commodities, which compelled the school management to sell few bags of dal in order to purchase rice and other commodities to provide meal to the students,” the letter read.

It also demanded ‘strict effective disciplinary measure to penalise the defaulters.’