Mobile App to monitor mid-day meals scheme Jagananna Gorumudda
The Hindu
Mr. Rajasekhar, along with Joint Collector (Development) L. Shiva Shankar, visited the Zilla Parishad High School at Patamata on Friday to examine the use and practical problems of the app.
Principal Secretary, Department of School Education, B. Rajasekhar on Friday said a mobile application for Integrated Monitoring System for Mid-Day Meals and Sanitation (IMMS) for effective implementation of the food programme, rechristened as Jagananna Gorumudda in the State, was being introduced. Mr. Rajasekhar, along with Joint Collector (Development) L. Shiva Shankar, visited the Zilla Parishad High School at Patamata on Friday to examine the use and practical problems of the app. He said the app would help in effective monitoring of daily and monthly mid-day meal data to be updated by the schools. This system will introduce transparency in food delivery and utilisation mechanisms, he said. The details of the daily menu of the food served to students would be updated and a mechanism was put in place to allow the authorities to know immediately about complaints, if there were any, through the app.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.