He has asked the Human Resource department to look into the scheme which covers more than 80,000 schools across the state.

A recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was highly critical of the mid-day meal scheme in Bihar during 2007-08. 'There has been complete absence of internal controls, regular monitoring and evaluation of the mid-day meal scheme for children during 2007-08,' the report said.

Bihar is spending more than Rs.2,000 crore on the scheme.

The mid-day meal scheme is the world's largest nutrition-supplement programme, covering more than a million schools across India. It was launched in 1995 to tackle the twin problems of dropouts in primary schools and malnutrition among children.