The Delhi High Court issued notices to the Delhi government, the health ministry and the human resource development ministry on the issue of banning the sale of junk food in and around schools, an NGO said in a statement today.
Junk food should be stopped in schools, order issued by Delhi High Court. It could be a good step regarding the view of children health.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan has asked for responses to the notices by Feb 12, 2011, and has appointed senior counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul as the amicus curiae to assist it in the case.
"On the one hand, children are taught in the classroom about nutrition and the value of a healthy lifestyle, but on the other hand, we continue to make junk food available to them," Uday Foundation co-founder Rahul Verma said in an earlier statement.
The petition asks the respondents - the Delhi government, Delhi's education department, the human resource development and health ministries and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) - to formulate a comprehensive canteen policy so that only healthy food is available in schools.
It also asked for banning the sale of junk food within 100 yards of a school campus. (IANS).
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