Browsing: MidDay

On June 22, the West Bengal government announced a pilot initiative to replace eggs with vegetarian alternatives in select school mid-day meals in Kolkata. Under the programme, the preparation of such meals, which has so far been administered by the Kolkata Municipal Corporate (KMC), will be handed over to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness’s…

The West Bengal government has handed over mid-day meal preparation in Kolkata to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Eggs have disappeared from the menu. So have onion and garlic. West Bengal is not an isolated case. ISKCON, the Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF), and other religious charities that dominate the centralised supply of mid-day…