LUCKNOW, Aug. 2 -- Disposing of the two public interest litigation (PILs) petitions on Friday, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the state government to ensure complete compliance with the statutory mandate contained in Sections 4 and 5 and Schedule II appended to the National Food Security Act, 2013 in a time-bound manner for proper nutrition across UP. The issue for providing health care to infants and lactating mothers through Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme was raised in the PILs. "The State shall ensure procurement of supplies of THR and hot cooked meal strictly as per the provisions contained in Rules, 2022 as per the procurement procedure under General Financial Rules, 2017 and Vigilance Guidelines and other norms issued from time to time by the Government of India. The supply of dry ration in place of THR and hot cooked meal is not permissible either under the Act or the Rules and supply of dry ration in place of hot cooked meal and Take Home Ration (THR) should be stopped," the court ordered. A division bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the order on the two PIL petitions moved by Shipra Devi and Pratyush Rawat. The petitioners had alleged certain anomalies in implementation of the ICDS scheme in respect to the issue raised....