Question

assess the objective of mid day meal programme

Answer 1

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school mealprogramme of the Government of Indiadesigned to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide.[1] 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.[2] Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest such programme in the world

Answer 2

the Government of India has launched the mid day meal scheme in August 1995 in order to increase the nutritional status of the children who are studying in government school especially among the depressed classes or the lower classes who can't afford to buy food