3 min learnPatnaUp to date: Aug 19, 2026 11:59 AM IST
Thirty-four kids fell in poor health after consuming the mid-day meal at a authorities college in Noorsarai block in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Tuesday. The college headmaster stated the incident occurred after the cook dinner mistakenly provided detergent powder to college students who had requested for additional salt.
In line with a Nalanda district official, 17 women and as many boys of Center College, Parasi, had been taken to Biharsharif Sadar Hospital after growing well being issues following the meal. All of them are wholesome and out of hazard after receiving therapy, the district administration stated.
In a video, the varsity’s headmaster, Shailendra Kumar Singh, is seen telling native reporters that the meal, provided via an NGO, comprised rice and soybean-potato curry as per the prescribed menu.
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The way it began
The headmaster stated the varsity serves the meal in a number of sittings. “In the course of the second sitting, a pupil, recognized because the granddaughter of a faculty cook dinner, reportedly requested for extra salt. The cook dinner allegedly picked up detergent powder as an alternative of salt by mistake and added it to the lady’s meals,” he’s heard saying in a video. “Seeing the cook dinner serving meals solely to her granddaughter, different college students additionally demanded additional salt and ended up getting the identical detergent powder. Quickly, some college students began complaining about ache within the throat and abdomen after which we discovered in regards to the problem,” he added.
The college administration initially gave the affected kids heat salt water to assist ease the signs earlier than taking them to hospital. They had been first taken to the Dental Faculty at Bhagan Bigha and later referred to Biharsharif Sadar Hospital for additional therapy.
In the meantime, the district official stated the youngsters had been examined by medical doctors and their situation was secure.
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They stated that the meal had been provided by Ekta Shakti Basis via its centralised kitchen at Ramghat, Nagarnausa. “Earlier than serving, two cooks and two lecturers on the college had eaten the meals. The meal was then served to all 132 college students at 12.30 pm. Of them, 34 kids had been admitted to Sadar Hospital at about 2.15 pm after reporting well being issues,” an official stated.
The muse’s centralised kitchen provides mid-day meals day by day to about 23,000 kids in 206 faculties throughout Chandi, Nagarnausa and Noorsarai blocks, the district official stated.
Officers stated they’d get samples of the meal examined. In the meantime, officers from the schooling division and native administration reached the hospital the place the youngsters had been admitted. Bihar Minister Shravan Kumar additionally visited Sadar Hospital, met the youngsters and directed medical doctors to make sure correct therapy.
The district administration stated medical doctors discovered all the youngsters wholesome and out of hazard, with no adversarial well being results detected on the time of evaluation.
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No FIR or grievance has been registered within the case but.
