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45 Students Fall Sick, 5 Critical After Chameleon Found In Mid-Day Meal In Bihar's Supaul

© Manmath NayakIndia.Com News Desk Earlier, a dead snake was found in the mid-day meal at a government school in Araria district.

Patna: Over 45 students fell sick and several of them were admitted to hospital on Monday after chameleon was found in mid-day meal in Bihar's Supaul district. The incident was reported at government middle school located in Thudi village under Bhimpur police station in the district.

The matter came to limelight after the mid-day meal was served to students on Monday and after eating the food, many students complained of vomiting and stomach ache.

School teachers and the villagers immediately took 45 children to the common health centre Narpatganj for the treatment. Five of them are said to be in critical condition.

After the incident, officials of Bhimpur police station reached the school and investigated the food served to the students - and they found a chameleon in it.

Earlier, a dead snake was found in the mid-day meal at a government school in Araria district. Dozens of students fell sick after eating the food and were admitted to a hospital.

After the incident was reported, senior officers such as SDM, the SDO and the DSP reached the spot to take stock of the situation.

In a similar incident on 18 May this year, one dead lizard was found in the mid-day meal in Bihar's Saran district. Around 35 students fell sick after eating the food.

Another incident was also reported in July 2014, when 23 school children had died in Saran district after consuming a mid-day meal which was allegedly contaminated with pesticides. After the incident, the state government had assured that covered kitchens would be constructed in all the 70,000-odd schools in the state where mid-day meals are served.

Chameleon Celebrates A Quarter-century Of Musical Adventure

© Matt Wan Members of Chameleon Arts Ensemble — Deborah Boldin, flute and artistic director; Nancy Dimock, oboe; Hazel Dean Davis, French horn; Nik Hooks, bassoon; and Gary Gorczyca, clarinet — rehearsing a chamber work by Hindemith last week at First Church in Boston.

Twenty-five years ago, flutist Deborah Boldin founded the Chameleon Arts Ensemble with a mission to present thoughtfully curated chamber music performances of the highest quality. "I try to create a miniature cosmos with each concert," she once told the Globe.

More than 400 concerts later, cosmos after cosmos, Chameleon is still going strong. Saturday night's performance in First Church, the final program of its 25th anniversary season, was a festive and satisfying affair fully realized in the ensemble's adventurous style.

A not insignificant part of this group's longevity stems from Boldin's understanding that while each work is experienced on its own terms, the best concerts always add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. The selected pieces must complement each other, and variety is often key. Boldin anchors each program with a classic of the literature, but she typically surrounds it with neglected works and contemporary ones. That said, while variety is important, it can never be a substitute for taste.

Saturday's program reminded listeners that Chameleon has that, too. Even when an audience hasn't heard of a work or its composer, in other words, they can trust Boldin's judgment and follow her lead.

The night opened with Florence Price's Fantasie No. 1. Price's music is undergoing a major rediscovery, with more and more gems finding their ways onto orchestral and chamber programs alike. This Fantasie in G Minor — just under five minutes in length, with alternating passages of muscular virtuosity and blues-inflected lyricism — is a gift to any violin recitalist. In this case Elizabeth Fayette, partnered by pianist Amy Yang, gave a tonally robust and forceful performance filled with both light and heat in equal measure.

Next came Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik Op. 24, No. 2, performed by Boldin, Nancy Dimock (oboe), Gary Gorczyca (clarinet), Nik Hooks (bassoon), and Hazel Dean Davis (horn). The piece dates from Hindemith's bad-boy interwar expressionist phase, a time when he was writing operas about sex-starved nuns and murder as the "hope of women" (after the play by Oskar Kokoschka). This succinctly brilliant woodwind quintet, however, places the composer's youthful technical mastery on view without the scandal-mongering. The music is full of ear-catching angular counterpoint and tart instrumental writing, its lean harmonies possessing all the appealing bitterness and bite of a strong espresso. The Chameleons played with precision, poise, and musicality.

The second half of Saturday's program showed off Chameleon's protean flexibility, its ability to take on multiple works requiring diverse instrumentation on a single program. In this case, the repertoire — John Musto's "Divertimento" from 1999 and the beloved Schubert Octet — required two large, mixed ensembles. In addition to the musicians who had participated earlier in the night, Chameleon deployed, among others, Scott Woolweaver, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Matt Sharrock, percussion; and Randall Zigler, bass.

Musto's inventive writing and vivid percussion made a solid impression. But it was the Schubert that closed the 25th season on a deeply satisfying note. Deftly led by violinist Robyn Bollinger — a member of A Far Cry recently appointed as concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony — this performance had a near-orchestral breadth of sonority when required, but it was also compelling in moments when Schubert demands the detailed intimacy, ensemble cohesion, and textural transparency of chamber music.

Boldin's own flute was not called for in the Schubert so she was not on stage at the end of the night. Concluding this major season with a work she did not play in seemed a characteristically selfless act, though perhaps one that also underscored Chameleon's larger emphasis from the outset on creating a community. She built it. And they — audiences, musicians — came. And stayed.

CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE

At: First Church, Saturday night

45 Students Fall Sick After Consuming Mid-day Meal That Contained A Chameleon In India

Photo used for illustrative purpose.

Around 45 students fell sick on Monday after consuming mid-day Meal that contained a chameleon in Bihar's Supaul district.

The incident occurred at government middle school located in Thudi village under Bhimpur police station in the district.

The mid-day meal was served to students on Monday. After consuming the food, many students complained of vomiting and stomach ache. The teachers and the villagers immediately rescued 45 children and took them to the common health centre Narpatganj for the treatment. Five of them are in critical condition.

Following the incident, officials of Bhimpur police station reached the school and investigated the food served to the students - and they have found a chameleon in it.

Earlier, a young snake was found in the mid-day meal in a school in Araria district and rotten eggs were served to students in Siwan.

Indo-Asian News Service

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