bareilly a meagre sum of rs 40 is all that each inmate of nari niketan gets a day to meet food expenses that include breakfast lunch and dinner this has come to light after four inmates escaped from the government reformation home leading to a furore in government circles while human rights activists along with central and state government are trying hard to provide nutritious food and facilitate a healthy lifestyle for all inmates residing in nari niketan in the city seem to be living without all basic privileges for years interestingly inmates have a fixed stipend of mere rs 1200 per month which exactly comes to around rs 40 per inmate daily shockingly neither the state government paid any attention nor social activists raised any questions on how the department is meeting demands of inmates when onetime diet of a normal person is roughly estimated at a minimum of rs 70 a day whereas inmates residing at nari niketan are sanctioned rs 40 per day for their meals for the record inmates are to be given a nutritious diet comprising dal rice chapatis roti and seasonal vegetables apart from that inmates are also entitled to curd and seasonal fruits moreover the stipend includes two square meals breakfast and seasonal fruits the above stipend also covers cost of travelling and cost of medicines but can a rs40 a day stipend cover all this it is impossible any inmate to have a decent meal let alone a nutritious diet the menu card at the nari niketan conveys completely different story as per menu card onetime diet of an inmate includes 40 grams of dal 210 grams of seasonal vegetables 290 grams of rice and bread along with seasonal fruits talking to toi district probation officer usha tiwari said a paltry sum of rs 1200 per month is fixed for each inmate residing at nari niketan at present which is quite less in comparison to increasing cost of living a proposal regarding increase in stipend had been sent to senior officials including state government the proposal is still in the pipeline though we have asked to increase stipend by rs 3000 per inmate which will help us in meeting daily needs of inmates