A paragraph on mid day meal in about 100 words
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Mid-Day Meal
Mid-day meal is an Indian Government initiative to provide adequate nutrition to school going children all across the nation. Free lunch to primary and middle school children is provided at government run schools, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Schemes under Sarv Shikhsa Abhiyan project. This programme is provides meals to 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools in India. This programme is not only instrumental in attracting millions of children to schools, but also ensures adequate nutrition to children, especially the children from poorer sections of the society and rural areas. This programme has the backing of Supreme Court under the ‘right to food’ act.