Mid-day Meal: Assam Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) Protestors Detained 

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Assam Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) took out a protest demonstration programme on Tuesday in front of Axom Sarva Siksha Abhijan Mission office in Kahilipara. APYC staged the protest against Assam government’s new initiative of handing over the responsibility of mid-day meal to outsider NGOs.

APYC alleged that Dispur is trying to dismiss the job of around 1 lakh 17 thousand cook engaged in different schools. The committee mentioned that they have taken out the protest against government’s negligence on this matter. APYC claimed the chief minister and the education minister is not taking any positive role, in such a situation where the whole state is against it. Participating in the protest state president of Yuva Congress Kamrul Islam Choudhury said, “We demand the government to cancel their decision of giving NGOs the responsibility of mid day meal and to stop taking such decision for the sake of commission. We warn Dispur that if they don’t listen to our demand we’ll take up mass protest programme in the whole state. However, later on, many protestors were detained.

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