Tandoori Chicken and Mathematics

A typical day in a school in Punjab

One fine day the Punjab State government decided to counter the high drop out rates among school children. In poorer families, the children were forced to stay at home and help their parents in earning a living. The governments' intentions were good when they introduced the Mid-Day Meal scheme for schools in the state. According to the scheme, children would be fed meals in schools. Socialist? Yes. But that is a whole new topic of discussion.
The blooper to this scheme? The number of cooks provided by the government to support this scheme = 0!!! It is the teachers who have to cook meals for the children. Most schools in India, do not have a kitchen much less provide meals for their students. What are the teachers supposed to do? Teach these kids to read and write or spend half their day fixing meals for the 30-40 kids in their classroom.
On top of everything, the government will conduct periodic checks, not on the quality of education in the schools but to check how well the teachers are cooking. Indian politics and Babu'dom at its best.