gurgaon the education department has outsourced a contract to provide midday meals to primary government schools all over gurgaon an mou has been signed between the directorate of elementary education and iskcon to provide meals to more than 90000 students across the citya semiautomated kitchen will be set up to ensure that the food is cooked in a hygienic way and also to reduce the need for a large staff the semiautomated kitchen would reduce our manpower needs but the people working in the kitchens currently would not loose their jobs they would be involved in other work like washing utensils and cutting vegetables etc 3035 vehicles are being donated by the corporate houses and mncs which would be utilised in supplying food to the schools said dhananjay krishna das director north india iskcon food relief foundationaccording to officials of the education department they would be provided land or a building to set up this automated kitchen we have provided them with a list of 16 dishes to be prepared for the students an assistant block resource coordinator has been in talks with iskcon representatives the midday meal programme is expected to start next month after summer vacations end said an officialthe education department has been running the mid day meal programme in all government schools for several years as per the mou the department would provide wheat and rice to the agency they will be paid rs 269 per child for students of class 1 to 5 and rs 403 per child of class 6th to 8th studentsthe midday meal programme is an initiative started by the government to ensure students from poor sections of ociety have a good reason to attend school the programme would be started in a phased manner in different blocks of gurgaon pataudi manesar gurgaon starting with gurgaon