Overview

• Four separate food poisoning outbreaks at residential schools in Nagalgidda, Pedda Kothapalli, Laxmipur and Bhadrachalam have sickened dozens of students over two days.
• BRS leader T. Harish Rao publicly accused the Congress-led government of negligence and urged Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to personally intervene.
• The Telangana Human Rights Commission is probing a July 14 incident that hospitalized 32 students as officials have yet to announce corrective measures.
• Harish Rao cited more than 100 student deaths in recent months from food poisoning, snake bites or suicides as proof of systemic failures in residential institutions.
• Activists and opposition leaders are calling for strict enforcement of December’s standardized diet and hygiene SOPs and consolidation of welfare department oversight.