‘Eggs, chicken served for school mid-day meals’

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Press Trust of India

Posted online: Saturday , February 02, 2008 at 01:18:39
Updated: Saturday , February 02, 2008 at 01:35:49

Kolkata, February 1 Boiled eggs and chicken curry were being served as mid-day meals in a few schools in bird flu-affected districts of the state, the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) said on Friday.

WBPCC General Secretary Manas Bhuniya told mediapersons that children were suffering from fever in Howrah, Birbhum and Murshidabad districts. “A medical team should probe if there was any link with the bird flu virus,” he added.

“We demand that there should be a ban on the serving of eggs and chicken in the affected districts for three weeks,” he said. “I have spoken to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Union Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss regarding the issue. They have expressed disappointment at the manner in which the bird flu situation is being dealt with by the state government,” he said. “The state government was late in informing the Centre about the outbreak. It is due to absolute callousness and lack of coordination between departments that the disease has spread,” Bhuniya alleged.

Meanwhile, BJP state General Secretary Rahul Sinha alleged the state government had “failed” to check the avian influenza due to lack of infrastructure. He demanded that the state’s border with Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and Bangladesh be sealed to check smuggling of infected birds.

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