Question

Describe midday meal scheme in brief

Answer 1

it provides the food to students in school..

Answer 2

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school mealprogramme of the Government of Indiadesigned 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 the largest such programme in the world.