Jalandhar, December 28 - Government Teachers Union Punjab has demanded to increase the amount of mid-day meal to Rs 10 per student. State President of the Union Sukhwinder Singh Chahal, State General Secretary Gurbinder Singh, State Press Secretary Surjit Singh Mohali, Cashier Amandeep Sharma, Assistant Press Secretary Colonel Phillaur etc. said in a statement issued here that the mid-day meal menu was approved by the Education Department yesterday. has been changed, in which it has been instructed to give bananas to children on one day and "chole poodis" on the other day.

He said it would be impossible to spend on chickpeas and bananas as per the old cooking cost as oil prices are already skyrocketing due to inflation. He said that instead of dozens of bananas in the market, bananas are now available by the kilo and only six to seven bananas cost Rs 60 per kilo and it is not possible to give bananas to children in a diet of five rupees. He said that according to the new menu, all the teachers of Punjab have lost their breath as to how the mid-day meal will be arranged with the old cost and other additional costs.

Union Punjab has written a letter to the Chief Minister Punjab and Education Minister Punjab and demanded that the cost of cooking per student should be increased to Rs 10 and the cost of cooking should be sent to the accounts of schools on time.

On this occasion Tirth Singh Bassi, Mangal Tanda, Manohar Lal Sharman, Gurdeep Bajwa, Balwinder Singh Bhutto, Kuldeep Singh Purowal, Gurpreet Ammiwal, Judge Pal Bajeke, Harinder Barnala, Gurdas Mansa, Subhash Pathankot, Sukhchan Kapurthala, Bodh Raj, Prabhajit Singh Rasulpur, Devi Dayal, Satwant Singh, Pushpinder Harpalpur, Jaswinder Samana, Sucha Singh, Paramjit Singh Shorewal, Dildar Singh Bhandal, Manjit Brar, Sarabjit Brar, Ravinder Singh Pappi, Narinder Singh, Dilbagh Singh etc. were present.