Improving educational outcomes needs much more than meals for children. The tragedy in Bihar, where 23 children died last week from contamination in a school lunch, serves as a grim reminder of the widening gap between what governments promise the poor and what they actually deliver.
The tragedy should have served as a moment of introspection for policymakers. Unfortunately, the political blame game triggered by the tragedy has only served to deflect attention from the deeper questions the incident raises on the mid-day meal programme, on India’s educational crisis and on the wider rot in governance the country faces.
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