TEAM HERALD
CANACONA: The meeting called by the education department with self help groups, who supply mid-day meals in Canacona taluka, and local education officials failed to take place at Panjim on Friday.
According to sources, representatives of some self-help groups and officers of Canacona ADEI went to Panjim to attend the meet with Director of Education at 3 pm. After a long wait, an official of the education department is reported to have informed the representatives at about 5 pm that it was not possible to hold the meet on Friday.
Sources informed that the two main self-help groups of Canacona, who supply meals to about 60% of the eligible students, have already given in writing to the department that they are not willing to accept the responsibility of providing meals to the 2,000 students who are left stranded, after the services of one mid-day meal supplier was suspended.
