Caste discrimination with midday meal employee-ABVP seeks justice

Shimla, Apr 27 – Right wing student organisation ABVP alleged that female employee of mid-day-meal at Chikhar School in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh is facing caste discrimination.
In a press statement issued here today Nancy Atal, State Co-convener of ABVP Himachal Pradesh, said that it is extremely shameful for the state which claims to be second in the literacy rate across the country as employee working state run school of capital, town facing caste-based discrimination in the mid-day meals which is incident of conservative notions in the state.
A woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste was appointed as a mid-day meal worker at Chikhar School in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh. Out of 40 students of the school, only 20 students take the food prepared by the lady employee and remaining 20 students do not have lunch in the school. The school has two Mid Day Meal workers in Upper Primary. When meals are prepared by other personnel, all students eat at school.
Nancy Atal says that even for lunch in school, students are served separately as students were forced to sit in the raw on the basis of their caste, which is not acceptable at all. ” If the local people believed in such discrimination same belief could not be forced in the kids of primary school ” The Vidyarthi Parishad believes that this issue sending a wrong message to tender aged students studying in the school, their mindset also being affected. The schools is place where they should taught the lesson of unity and inculcating the value of nondiscrimination toward caste, sex, creed and faith
Student organisation demands the administration to take strict action on this matter as soon as possible.