mumbai just five days after 34 students of a civicrun school in dadar took ill after drinking flavoured milk distributed by the bmc 14 children from thejagannath shankersheth school at grant road were hospitalized with the same symptomssoon after drinking the flavoured milk distributed under a welfare scheme the studentseight boys and six girls from std i to ivstarted complaining of stomach ache and began to throw up the teachers took them to hospital immediately after the dadar incident it was only today that we rceived instructions to distribute milk said a teacher rajni waghmare soniya vasta of std iii added as usual at about 1 pm we were given strawberry milk after having it i started feeling queasy and had a terrible stomach achein the neighbouring ward four children who displayed more severe symptoms had been put on an intravenous drip the rs 298 crore flavoured milk scheme which was implemented in civic schools less than a month ago has been fraught with controversies and surrounded by charges of corruption according to insiders the bmc had tweaked tender conditions to favour a particular cartel of contractorsthere are 12 children below 12 years and two above that but all are stable said nair hospital dean sanjay oakmunicipal commissioner jairaj phatak suspects sabotage and refuses to give a clean chit to the contractors i have been informed of a conspiracy in the scheme and even have the name of the person behind this but i wont reveal the name until its confirmed by the police said phatakthe corporation has now decided to stop distributing the milk packets for four days until the standing committee decides on the next course of action the committee has already ordered a probe into the incident by a panel comprising the police and members of the bmcs education and health departmentsmeanwhile a member of the standing committee sunil prabhu of the shiv sena has demanded a cid probe it was this same committee which had passed the rs 298 crore proposal to supply milk to fourandahalf lakh underprivileged school children as part of the new scheme the tetrapacks bought at rs 1150 per 200 ml packet come all the way from haryana and the contract to supply the milk has been awarded to the rashtriya mazdoor madhyavarti sahakari grahak sangh run by a local political leaderregarding the future of the milk supply contract phatak said the decision rests with the standing committee i can stop the supply tomorrow itself but because of solitary incidents should all the 45 lakh children in the city not get their daily dose of milk i leave it to you all he told the committee members the corporators did not react to the suggestionthe commissioner did not blame the milk supplier even when 34 students of the dadar school took ill and were admitted to kem hospital for food poisoning last week on wednesday he tried to reason it out saying if theres an outbreak of gastroenteritis due to water contamination