The management of a Malad school has approached the BMC and police, over ‘plastic’ rice it claims to have received under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, provided to their 450 students. The parents complained to the school that the rice does not get cooked even after an hour and is very tough to chew. The BMC will send a team to the school today to get samples of the rice tested. The Kurar police have said they will act in the matter after the test. However, BMC Education Officer claims the rice is not ‘plastic,’ it is actually ‘fortified with nutrition’.

Earlier, students of the Pathanwadi Urdu Primary and High School at Kurar village were given khichdi under the scheme, but due to the COVID-19 restrictions, they are now being given rice, chana, dal, which is distributed to their parents by the school. School authorities also claimed that when they started distributing rice to the parents they found the quantity of rice in every sack was less than 50 kg.