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Bihar school meal poisoning incident
On 16 July 2013, at least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the village of Dharmashati Gandaman in the Saran district of the Indian state of Bihar after eating a Midday Meal contaminated with pesticide.〔〔〔 Angered by the deaths and illnesses, villagers took to the streets in many parts of the district in violent protest.〔 Subsequently, Bihar Government took a series of steps to prevent any recurrence of such incidents.〔
== Background ==
Across India, the Midday Meal Scheme provides roughly 120 million children with free lunch, making it the world's largest school lunch programme. In spite of corruption involved in implementing the scheme, it aims to fight widespread poverty, improve children's school attendance and health, as a large number of India's children suffer from malnutrition.〔
Bihar in northern India is among the nation's poorest states.〔 According to Mashrakh residents, students have suffered from food poisoning after eating school lunches on multiple occasions.〔 P. K. Shahi, Bihar's education minister, said complaints about food quality were not uncommon but there had been no reported incidents of widespread food poisoning during his tenure.〔 The nonprofit Iskcon Food Relief Foundation describes the meal programmes in Bihar and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh as "the worst in India." Public health is poor in general, with most water sources contaminated, and hospitals underfunded.〔
The primary school in the village of Dharmashati Gandaman was established in 2010. At the time of the incident, 89 children were registered with the school. The food material for midday meals was stored at the house of the headmistress as the school did not have sufficient infrastructure.〔
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