Serving of around 16 crore midday meals worth over Rs 100 crore were over-reported by the local administration in West Bengal from April to September last year, a panel appointed by the Ministry of Education has found.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) had in January constituted the ’joint review mission’ (JRM) to review the implementation of centrally sponsored scheme PM POSHAN in West Bengal following complaints of irregularities
On April 3, West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu tweeted that the JRM which visited schools had submitted its report without even informing the project director