COVID-19: With schools shut & mid-day meals unavailable to children, SC issues notice to states, UTs

new delhi: the supreme court wednesday took note of the non-availability of mid-day meals to children as schools in many parts of the country have been shut due to the coronavirus pandemic.      a bench headed by chief justice s a bobde took suo motu cognisance of the matter and issued notices to the states and union territories asking them how children were being provided mid-day meals amid the shut down of schools.    schools in delhi-ncr and many other states are closed till march 31 in view of the covid-19 outbreak.