As many as 10,000 LPG cylinders and gas stoves meant for cooking of mid-day meal for students in government-run primary schools have gone missing or stolen from various districts of Uttar Pradesh in the last decade, officials said.
The exact figure of missing or stolen cylinders was yet to ascertained as compilation of data was still on, they added.
Mid-day meal director Abdul Samad has written a letter (dated May 15, 2019) to all the district magistrates in the state to look into the matter and lodge FIRs against those involved in theft of LPG cylinders from schools.
In the letter, Samad said schools were asking for new connections without completing the mandatory formality of lodging FIR of stolen LPG cylinders, hence it was difficult to say whether they were being stolen or have gone missing.
