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Chandru committee recommendation on centralized kitchen
August 27 , 2024
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- Experts expressing concerns about one of the recommendations of the Justice K. Chandru committee, on replacing the on-site cooking of noon-meal for school students with centralised kitchens.
- The report has recommended the Tamil Nadu government to prohibit students in schools from wearing coloured wristbands, rings, or forehead marks that may indicate their caste and removal of caste appellations in the names of schools.
- The report includes establishing centralised kitchens at block level with adequate staff required for its operation and a distribution network attached to school noon meal centres, instead of having kitchens in every school.
- In some States, functioning of centralised kitchens, particularly in rural areas, were not up to the mark.
- When food is cooked in the noon meal centres located within school premises, teachers, students and parents can monitor the cooking activities and the process is accountable.
- But in the case of centralised kitchens, there is a less chance of the public accountability.
- Cooking food at noon meal centres in schools generates employment, particularly for women.
- Nearly 27% of the noon-meal workers belong to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe communities.
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