<p> In an exemplary action, the District Magistrate of Bihar's Aurangabad has reinstated a Dalit widow as the midday meal cook at a school and also shared the food prepared by her with the students.<br /><br /></p>.<p>DM Kanwal Tanuj also ordered suspension of school headmaster Govind Kumar Yadav who had sacked the cook after her husband passed away.<br /><br />Moved by the complaint registered by the hapless woman Urmila Kuwar, Tanuj himself paid a visit to Batura middle school under Rafiganj block here yesterday and ate the midday meal prepared by the woman at the school with other students.<br /><br />"My humanitarian instinct compelled me to do justice with the woman. Besides, I also wanted to give a strong social message against caste and social ills of distancing from widow to the people," the DM told PTI today.<br /><br />The school headmaster who had sacked the widow has been expelled and a new headmaster took charge of the school today, he said.<br /><br />Departmental inquiry has been initiated against the headmaster on instruction from the DM to the district education officer Yaduvansh Ram.<br /><br />The woman, whose husband died recently was solely dependent on a paltry Rs 1,000 she used to get from cooking the meal at the school. She was fired on Monday, the DM said quoting from her complaint.<br /><br />From this meagre income of Rs 1,000 she was feeding four minor children and deprivation of it forced her to petition the DM against the injustice, he added.<br />Tanuj said the students were very happy on return of the cook.</p>
<p> In an exemplary action, the District Magistrate of Bihar's Aurangabad has reinstated a Dalit widow as the midday meal cook at a school and also shared the food prepared by her with the students.<br /><br /></p>.<p>DM Kanwal Tanuj also ordered suspension of school headmaster Govind Kumar Yadav who had sacked the cook after her husband passed away.<br /><br />Moved by the complaint registered by the hapless woman Urmila Kuwar, Tanuj himself paid a visit to Batura middle school under Rafiganj block here yesterday and ate the midday meal prepared by the woman at the school with other students.<br /><br />"My humanitarian instinct compelled me to do justice with the woman. Besides, I also wanted to give a strong social message against caste and social ills of distancing from widow to the people," the DM told PTI today.<br /><br />The school headmaster who had sacked the widow has been expelled and a new headmaster took charge of the school today, he said.<br /><br />Departmental inquiry has been initiated against the headmaster on instruction from the DM to the district education officer Yaduvansh Ram.<br /><br />The woman, whose husband died recently was solely dependent on a paltry Rs 1,000 she used to get from cooking the meal at the school. She was fired on Monday, the DM said quoting from her complaint.<br /><br />From this meagre income of Rs 1,000 she was feeding four minor children and deprivation of it forced her to petition the DM against the injustice, he added.<br />Tanuj said the students were very happy on return of the cook.</p>