LPG Shortage Hits School Mid-Day Meals: Teachers Worried as Wood Fires & Dry Food Replace Cooked Meals
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Gas Shortage Hits Mid-Day Meals: Schools Turn to Wood, Dry Food Amid Crisis
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News18•12-03-2026, 13:08
Gas Shortage Hits Mid-Day Meals: Schools Turn to Wood, Dry Food Amid Crisis
•Cooking gas shortage forces schools, like Krishnachandrapur High School in Mathurapur, South 24 Parganas, to use wood fires for mid-day meals.
•Chandan Kumar Maity, Secretary of the Headmasters' Association, highlights concerns over pollution, deforestation, and rising wood prices, appealing to central and state governments for gas supply.
•Krishnachandrapur High School, with 2200 students, needs one cylinder daily but faces unavailability, leading to wood use and potential shift to dry food.
•Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee emphasizes that mid-day meals cannot stop and urges the Centre to clarify the gas supply situation.
•School authorities are struggling to manage with limited wood supply, awaiting government action to normalize the situation.
