‘Mid-Day Meal ScheMe’, An Effort to Avoid Classroom Hunger
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
The Mid Day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour. Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is one of the largest food assistance programs in the world with a 2013-2014 budget of Rs 30 billion ($490 million). It is managed by the Ministry of Education, which claims the program is in place to ―enhance enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improve nutritional levels among children.‖ The present study touches a various areas of this programme such as historical background, implementation of scheme, problems and suggestions for improvement of this scheme.
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Anjali Rani
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