Patna, June 28: Dozens of Muslim students of a government-run
Urdu school in a Bihar village have refused to take
mid-day meals cooked by a Dalit woman.
"We
will not touch the food. There is no question
of taking food cooked by a woman belonging to
the scheduled caste," said Nurjahan Bano,
an eight-year-old student of Amri Urdu middle
school in Rohtas district, about 150 km from here.
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Md
Aslam Ansari, a teacher in the school, admitted that
Muslim students were not eating mid-day meals for nearly
a month. "It is an unfortunate thing," he
said.
"All
the Muslim students of the school refused to eat food
cooked by a Dalit woman," villager Naushad Alam
said. There are over 100 students in the school.
Some
parents of the school students are responsible for the
decision, Alam said.
"Last
month, only a few students refused to eat food cooked
by a Dalit woman but later most of the students followed
them," he said.
No
official has visited the school so far despite a complaint
filed by the Dalit woman who used to cook for the students
under the mid-day meal scheme.
The
district administration officials are planning to visit
the school for an inspection. "We will inquire
into the case soon," district official Ramnarain
said.
(IANS)
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