Chandigarh: Punjab has no cash and another step that makes it evident is scrapping of mid-day meal in the state.

About two million kids were being fed the meal everyday in Punjab. Wavering on the edge of a monetary meltdown, the Punjab government has now finished its mid-day scheme for 21 lakh schoolchildren .

The state is so deep in the crunch that it has not paid August compensations to its representatives.

Sources said the state government has not discharged any funds for mid-day meal in government and government-helped schools after July. The trusts ear-stamped for the mid-day meal plan, the Central government allow in addition to the state's allotment, has been occupied to different heads.

Three-fourths of the plan's expense is borne by the Central government, leaving just 25 per cent to be helped by the state.

Foodgrains are furnished straightforwardly to schools, yet vegetables, salt, oil, fuel and different wares are obtained by the schools with a mid-day dish recompense.

Sources likewise said that the training section had as of late asked schools and school administration trustees to make their own particular plans for mid-day suppers. A few schools did make their own particular game plans, yet needed to stop as bills heaped up and markets declined to supply using a credit.

A top government officer said that subsidies discharged for the mid-day meal plan have been scrapped from 2012-13, and that the administration has not discharged supports for 2013-14.

Schools aren't completely free, with some showed up for have used mid-day meal stipends somewhere else. The legislature concedes there is an issue, yet says that supports have not been withheld. Key Secretary, School Education, Anjali Bhawra said that the mid-day meal issue will be understood soon.